16. A method comprising: ranking a plurality of web pages resulting from a search based on a search query; employing at least one processor to extract one or more item lists from the plurality of web pages based at least on one or more list pattern identification techniques, a respective item list of the one or more item lists including two or more related words or phrases included in a respective web page of the plurality of web pages; weighting each of the one or more item lists, the weighting including assigning a first weight to a first item list from a first web page and a second weight to a second item list from a second web page, the first weight being greater than a second weight, in response to determining that a ranking of the first web page is higher than a ranking of the second web page in the plurality of web pages; and clustering the one or more weighted item lists to generate one or more query dimensions to be displayed alongside a list of the plurality of web pages and that summarize a characteristic of a search query, at least one of the one or more query dimensions comprising a plurality of similar items from a cluster of weighted item lists.
18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the clustering is based on a determination that at least some of the item lists include one or more similar items.