User interface for viewing clusters of images

A method performed by a computing device to present an image search result having clusters of images, the method comprising:

• receiving an image search query;
• identifying an image search result of images that are relevant to the image search query, each image having a relevance score indicating relevance of the image to the image search query, the images being organized into clusters;
• displaying in a cluster panel a cluster indication of each cluster, the cluster indication for each cluster including thumbnails of multiple images from that cluster, the cluster indications being ordered based on relevance of the images in the cluster to the image search query;
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• displaying in a view panel thumbnails of images of one or more clusters wherein the cluster panel and the view panel are displayed simultaneously, wherein the respective thumbnails include functionality to display an image corresponding to a respective thumbnail in a detail view in the view panel upon user selection of the respective thumbnail.

A method performed by a computing device for presenting an image search result having clusters of images, the method comprising:

• storing in a store an image search result of images that are relevant to an image search query, each image having a relevance score indicating relevance of the image to the image search query, the images being organized into clusters;
• displaying in a cluster panel a cluster indication of each cluster, the cluster indication of a cluster including thumbnails of multiple images from the cluster, the cluster indications are ordered based on relevance of the images in the cluster to the image search query;
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• when in a mix view, displaying in the view panel thumbnails of the images of the clusters in which the images of all the clusters are ordered in a combined ordering such that the most relevant image of each cluster is listed first in the combined ordering followed by a listing of the second most relevant image of each cluster.