27. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by a computer system having memory, a display, and one or more processors cause the computer system to: display an application user interface on the display, the application user interface including a document authoring window and a search results window; display in the search results window a set of search results associated with one or more user-specified search keywords in a text-only display format, wherein each search result includes a chunk within a respective document that satisfies the search keywords; in response to a user request to view a chunk, launch a document display window in the application user interface and display therein a portion of the corresponding document that includes the chunk in its native display format, further including generate an empty region in the application user interface by shrinking the document authoring window and occupy the empty region with the document display window in the application user interface; and in response to a user request to duplicate a segment of the corresponding document in the document authoring window, generate therein an instance of the segment of the corresponding document in its native display format.
27. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by a computer system having memory, a display, and one or more processors cause the computer system to: display an application user interface on the display, the application user interface including a document authoring window and a search results window; display in the search results window a set of search results associated with one or more user-specified search keywords in a text-only display format, wherein each search result includes a chunk within a respective document that satisfies the search keywords; in response to a user request to view a chunk, launch a document display window in the application user interface and display therein a portion of the corresponding document that includes the chunk in its native display format, further including generate an empty region in the application user interface by shrinking the document authoring window and occupy the empty region with the document display window in the application user interface; and in response to a user request to duplicate a segment of the corresponding document in the document authoring window, generate therein an instance of the segment of the corresponding document in its native display format. 36. The computer readable storage medium of claim 27 , wherein the document display window is a preview-only window of the corresponding document.