15. The search engine of claim 10 , wherein the image is presented in a view window which encloses at least a portion of text and at least a portion of non-text.
10. A search engine adapted to receive a search parameter from a user in connection with a search query, the search engine being further adapted to search a plurality of source documents for at least one occurrence of the search parameter therein and identify a subset of the plurality of source documents, the subset of source documents having at least one occurrence of the search parameter therein, wherein the search engine is further adapted to assign each source document in the subset of source documents a relative importance and determine an order of presentation of the subset to the user, and wherein the search engine is further adapted to identify a relevant portion of each source document in the subset of source documents and generate an image of the relevant portion of each source document in the subset of source documents and provide the image of the relevant portion along with a link to the source document in a set of search results, wherein the image of the relevant portion is smaller than the entire source document.