>> I m new to Java. Is it possible for an offline browser to fetch the
>> webpages from generated result of a search engine ?
>
> To do this, the browser would have to (perhaps temporarily) go online to
>access the search engine.
An signed Applet or a JAWS app can pretend to be a human/browser and
milk a search engine. However, the only one you could use offline
without an Internet connection is Google Desktop that indexes your
local disks. (or similar)

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