results are sorted by relevance, aka, best match to your query. This is how pretty much all full text searches work. No, I have no plans to implement a cover based view, when searching for text seeing context around the match is far more important. If you want to browse books by some other criteria than relevance, use the mark all button and then switch to the main calibre window, do a search for marked:true and then sort the resulting list however you like.
The viewer cannot search for the original query, since the viewer does not support the same search syntax as the FTS engine.
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