Quick Search

By Bernhard Häussner — Last update Jul 9, 2009 — Installed 283 times.


Script Summary: Select text and a menu pops up so that you can search for the phrase on various search engines

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This user script will open a tiny menu whenever you select text on web pages. In the menu you can choose from searching the highlighted phrase via

  • Google
  • Wikipedia
  • Leo Dictionary
  • Google Maps
  • twitter Search
It now even sopports post the selected text as quote to twitter and use the selected text as URL.
After that is hides away. I will also hide away if you click anywhere on the page again. Anyway it shouldn't be too distracting since it's semi transparent.
It's German localized (google.de, de.wikipedia.org, German dictionary)

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