1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor circuit; and a server application for execution by the processor circuit, the server application comprising: a query processing component to receive a first search query from a first user comprising one or more search terms; a search component to provide search results for the first search query in a search result list, the search result list comprising one or more search result items; and a topic board component to manage a writable topic board for the first search query, the writable topic board being part of a user interface view of a client application and comprising one or more search result items as shared documents that can be modified by and shared among multiple users, wherein the one or more search result items are search results from a second search query of a second user, wherein the topic board component receives a control directive from a first client application associated with the first user to share at least one document, from the one or more search results, with a second client application associated with the second user such that the user interface view associated with the writable topic board displays the at least one document.