Search For Selected Text In Search Engines

What do users normally do if they want to research a phrase that they have read in a text, Word or Excel document, on a website or in a user agreement of a program that they are installing? The usual answer is that they copy the phrase, open their favorite web browser, load the a search engine and start the search for the phrase.

Search Selected makes the process easier by enabling a global hotkey that will automatically launch a search for the selected phrase. Global hotkey means that search can be launched from any application in Windows where text can be selected.

Search Selected runs silently in the background until the keyboard shortcut [CTRL Shift C] is activated. The tool will automatically launch a search for the selected search phrase in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The only option that is offered by the program is a selection of search engines including Google Search, Bing or Yahoo Search.

The only aspect of the program that some users might not like is the fact that searches are opened in Internet Explorer with no option to change the web browser. This happens even if Internet Explorer is not the default web browser.

The background process is lightweight and uses less than 5 Megabytes of computer memory. Users who are interested in the software program can download it from the developer’s website.

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Tags: internet-explorer, sarch engine, Search Engines, search selected, web search, windows software
Categories: Search Engines, Windows, software

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3 Responses to “Search For Selected Text In Search Engines”

1. Manrico Corazzi says:

   September 1, 2009 at 10:43 am

   Hi; if you have AutoHotKey installed you can do that with a simple script:

   ; ————————————————————-
   ; search selected text
   ^#g::
   {
   clipboardBackup = %clipboard%
   Send ^c
   ClipWait
   Run http://www.google.com/search?q=%clipboard%
   clipboard = %clipboardBackup%
   return
   }

   You select the text, press CTRL+WIN+G and the search starts.
   It uses your default web browser, among other things.

   Reply

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