How so?

Afaict it just produces a url and hands it off to a browser of your choice.

For example, the piratebay example which Bjoern posted (which requires a separate 'dlynx' script, btw):

surfraw -browser="dlynx" piratebay 2012 | whatever...

can be rewritten as:

lynx -dump http://thepiratebay.org/search/2012 | whatever...