publicly accessible network with an efficient use of space on a display device of a computer computers often use graphical interfaces for user interaction and thus graphical space can be in short supply during some applications in addition requiring a user to navigate various graphical interfaces to access a searching utility can increase the effective time of the searching operation systems and methods are described for searching a network in an efficient and effective manner application_number US 69344807 A description the following description of various embodiments is merely exemplary in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention its application or uses while various embodiments have been described for purposes of this specification various changes and modifications may be made which will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and which are encompassed in the spirit of the invention both disclosed herein and as defined in the appended claims fig1 shows an embodiment of a system 100 for searching a publicly accessible network the system 100 includes a computing device 104 which represents a local machine to a user and a remote computing device 108 which represents generally a remote computing device in communication with the local computing device 104 over the publicly accessible network in one embodiment a publicly accessible network is the internet in other embodiments networks with varying degrees of public access may be considered publicly accessible networks for example a free wireless network may be considered a publicly accessible network in addition in some instances an intranet may be considered a publicly accessible network as shown in fig1 computing device 104 and computing device.