17. A computing device as recited in claim 13 , the user interface comprising a touch interface.
13. A computing device comprising: a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; a user interface configured to: receive a query input, the query input including at least a first textual entity and a second textual entity; generate a candidate set of images based at least in part on the query input, the candidate set of image including at least a first image associated with the first textual entity and a second image associated with the second textual entity; receive an indication of placement of the first image and the second image to form a composite visual query such that: individual image patches of the composite visual query correspond to at least one of the first image or the second image; and relative locations of the image patches within the composite visual query correspond to placement locations of the first image and the second image on a canvas portion of the user interface; and an interactive image search tool configured to perform a visual search using the composite visual query.