1 ) A user-interface method of incrementally providing fully qualified links to a set of relevant search engines, the method comprising: a) identifying a set of search engines, each search engine being characterized with corresponding metadata; b) receiving a partial search query entered on a keypad by a user; c) after each keypress received from the user, inferring a set of potential full queries intended by the user, based at least in part on the partial search query; d) using the inferred full queries and the metadata characterizing the search engines to select a subset of the identified search engines that are relevant to the inferred full queries; e) for each of the selected search engines, providing a fully qualified link designed to directly launch a search for a relevant query string using the search engine.