16. The server of claim 15 , wherein obtaining the pre-consideration set includes identifying a group of application representations by querying the search index with the set of subqueries, each identified application representation having a feature associated with at least one of the set of subqueries, wherein the set of one or more application representations is a subset of the identified group of application representations.
15. The server of claim 14 , wherein determining the initial result set includes: obtaining a pre-consideration set of application representations from the search index based on the set of subqueries, wherein the set of one or more application representations is a subset of the pre-consideration set; and deriving the initial result set from the pre-consideration set based on the query features of the search query.