1. A mobile communications device comprising a display device and one or more modules configured to: display search results on the display device of a first search performed in a first context that involves a single application based on a search query; reduce a search query input area on the display device in response to an input to scroll through the search results; during display of the search results of the first search and responsive to receiving an input via a pan gesture that indicates that a scope of the first search is to be expanded to another application, perform a second search that includes a second context that involves the other application, the second search being performed without manual reentry of the search query; and responsive to receiving the input via the pan gesture, cause the second search to expand from searching content in a local storage of the mobile communications device to searching content remote from the mobile communications device.