Patent ID: 8458599

Claim:
A method for joint interaction with web-based search results, comprising: displaying, on a first display viewable by a first user, a set of results based on a query; displaying, on a second display viewable by a second user, the set of results; receiving, from the first user, a first input based on the set of results, the first input selecting a first result from the set of results; in response to receiving the first input, automatically updating the first display and the second display to identify which results of the set of results have been selected by the first user while concurrently displaying results that have not been selected by any user; receiving, from the second user, a second input based on the set of results, the second input selecting a second result from the set of results; in response to receiving the second input, automatically updating the first display and the second display to identify which results of the set of results have been selected by the second user while concurrently displaying the first result and results that have not been selected by any user; wherein each display, of the first display and the second display, indicates selection of the first result by the first user in a manner that visually differs from the manner in which said each display indicates selection of the second result by the second user.