36. The system of claim 29 , wherein at least one of the panes has an associated navigation widget that facilitates independent scrolling of the contents of the associated pane.
29. A system for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying search results and related information, the system comprising: a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to generate the graphical user interface on a display device, the graphical user interface including: a search element that enables a user to submit a search query; a window having at least three panes that are arranged to display search related information or results, each of the at least three panes configured to collectively, responsive to submission of the search query, each display search results from a different respective search category in each of said at least three panes, the different respective search category selected from the group consisting of: general web search results, image search results, book search results, movie search results, map search results, local area search results, reference search results, dictionary search results, address based search results, news search results, diary search results, bookmark search results, search history search results and tracking number search results, and each pane being user configurable to be in either an open state suitable for displaying information from a particular search category or a narrowed column closed state which is narrowed to a display of at least a narrowed column identifying the particular search category; and at least two adjustable delimiters that visibly mark the boundaries between adjacent panes, wherein moving an associated one of the at least two adjustable delimiters to a position where a spatial dimension of an adjacent pane in the narrowed column closed state is above a non-zero designated threshold for opening the adjacent pane from the narrowed column closed state to the open state causes the adjacent pane to automatically be configured in the open state.