1. A method performed by one or more devices, comprising: receiving, from a user, a search query that includes one or more search terms; providing, by one or more processors associated with the one or more devices and based on the search query, search results to the user, where at least one of the search results includes a reference and a text excerpt, where the reference specifies a search result document, and where the text excerpt is obtained from text in the specified search result document and includes text, from the specified search result document, other than the one or more search terms; receiving, by one or more processors associated with the one or more devices and from the user, selection of the text excerpt; providing, to the user, by one or more processors associated with the one or more devices and in response to the selection by the user of the text excerpt, an expanded text excerpt that includes the selected text excerpt and additional text from the text in the specified search result document, where the expanded text excerpt comprises less than all of the text in the specified search result document, where the expanded text excerpt is provided for display with the search results, and where the text excerpt is visually distinguished within the provided expanded text excerpt; and presenting an option for removing the expanded text excerpt and re-presenting, in response to the selection of the option for removing the expanded text excerpt, the at least one of the search results within the search results, where the re-presented at least one of the search results does not include the expanded text excerpt.