What’s a good name for the UX pattern where a search field in a header shows results inline, but the search itself does not occupy its own page or independent history entries?

Practically, it means you can’t go back to it. You can to navigate to ONE SEARCH RESULT and only one (especially if you open in a new tab, though support for that is pretty iffy in this pattern!). All context about the search is lost when you select something.

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