11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for a client computer to perform a method of receiving query results in response to a user-submitted query, the method comprising: providing to at least one server computer a user-submitted query, wherein the client computer is coupled to the server computer via a computer network, wherein the client computer includes a browser for use in displaying information received from the computer network, and, wherein the query is directed to a set of documents; and, before all of the documents in the set are analyzed by the server computer, displaying partial results extracted using at least text mining techniques that satisfy the user-submitted query, wherein the partial results are a subset of results that satisfy the user-submitted query, and, wherein the set of documents is analyzed by the server computer using text mining techniques to: extract structured information from unstructured or semi-structured text, and present relationships between entities extracted from the unstructured or semi-structured text; wherein the set of documents is analyzed by the server computer using text mining techniques using multiple parallel query sub-processes, each of which analyzes a corresponding subset of the set of documents; and, wherein the method further comprises providing an indication of how a text mining index should be decomposed into two or more sub-indices, and wherein at least one of the two or more sub-indices are used by each of the query sub-processes to analyze its corresponding subset of the set of documents.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the method further comprises displaying updated partial results in a manner that does not obscure partial results that were previously displayed.