1. A method of responding to a user input, the method comprising: displaying a user interface to be displayed on a computer display of a computing device outside of a Web browser, said user interface including a query pane for receiving user input and a results pane for displaying the results of a query; responding to the user input by displaying said user input in an active query box included in said query pane and automatically generating a search engine query including at least an automatically determined metadata property, tag, or subject matter, based at least in part on said user input, of a data corpus comprised of a plurality of file types without requiring additional user action, wherein said automatically determined metadata is not identical to said user input; displaying a word-wheel pop up when the results of said search engine query comprise a word-wheel, in response to a user selecting a word from said word-wheel pop up, changing said search engine query based on said selected word; and wherein the word-wheel suggests words or phrases that correspond to metadata related to the search terms, and wherein the metadata contains proper values which include at least one of the derived properties, subject matter, tags, and results from the active filters; displaying the results of said search engine query, if any, in said results pane.