Comments on: Search Selected Text with Google Chrome

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:23:26 +0000

Nicely done, I love my torrents so here is one for thepiratebay.org:

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Search words", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://thepiratebay.org/search/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+") +"/0/99/0"; void 0

By: freerow

freerow — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:52:44 +0000

They do not support selected Chinese texts

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:26:59 +0000

Great tips. Thanks you. I do have a question though. Most of the time when I use this feature in firefox I search for many things within the article I am reading and then, once I am done, I flip through the tabs I have opened. What I really want is to be able to use your feature without having to go the the new tab right away. Is there any way to do that. Again, just to be clear, I am hoping to use your cool shortcut feature but have it open a new tab in the background and not interrupt the site I am currently using. Any way this can work. Even the built in Google search does not do this in Chrome.

By: zSoilworker

zSoilworker — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:33:06 +0000

Not to bother you, but the search in google images button says Google Trends instead of Google Images.

Great script.

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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:54:03 +0000

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By: Oleg

Oleg — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:48:04 +0000

By the way, I didn’t care much for the prompt thing so I didn’t change the code to respect that area. I just wanted to select something and that the search was made in a new tab.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:42:34 +0000

Hi there,

Thanks for the tip!. I also wanted that the search was made in a new tab so that I could continue reading afterwards the initial page. I modified a little bit the code and here it is:

javascript:q = “http://www.google.com/search?q=” + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt(”You didn’t select any text. Enter a search phrase:”, “”); if (q!=null) open(q); void 0

I hope you find it useful.

By: phuc

phuc — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:24:14 +0000

javascript:q = “” + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt(”Search words”, “”); if (q!=null) location=”http://tratu.baamboo.com/dict/en_vn/” + escape(q).replace(/ /g, “+”); void 0

You can use that with another site, change the url wesite in that java.

But can you make a Bookmarks that search a word in these case. Copy+C the word anh then click Bookmarks. The website open in the new background tab.

Thanks very much

By: tapik

tapik — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:17:51 +0000

Great! This is the first time I’ve seen beautiful and usefull bookmarklets. I’ll have to write my own ones! I’ll post them here.

By: Martin Lambert

Martin Lambert — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:15:47 +0000

Just a few user-interface suggestions.

How about a feature that allows you to set new downloads to automatically open in the Downloads tab (ctrl+j) instead of popping up down the bottom of the page; and/or an option for the download pop-ups to hide automatically after completion?

Also, after implementing a few of those “Search Selected Text” links offered above, there are no icons on the buttons, just little blank white pages with a turned corner. An option to add/retrieve the icons from their host site would be a nice feature. I like seeing all the icons. It makes me happy!