Web search browser in Mathematica

Question

How can we build a system to perform web searches (e.g. Google search) in a notebook so that it looks and functions like a normal search interface operating in the browser?

Answer 1

I started on this, after building out a search paclet for this answer.

The basic idea is to simply provide nicer access to the basic underlying paclet. The code all lives here.

We can use it like so:

Get["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b3m2a1/mathematica-tools/master/SearchBrowser.wl"];
SearchBrowser[]

And then just type and search:

One convenient thing is that we can dynamically bind the search results, and use the different types of search (such as video):

SearchBrowser[Dynamic[sr]]

and then we can still access the results outside of the interface:

sr[[1]]