Selection Search

Search for the selected text in search engines

What is Selection Search?

"Selection Search" is an efficient Edge add-on designed to enhance your online browsing experience. Once installed, the extension allows users to search for the selected text in search engines of their preference. It elevates user control, granting you the ability to customize the search menu, and choose the search engines you use. Being the first released version, it highly appreciates any reporting of experienced issues for enhancements and improvements.

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By: Pitmairen

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Users: 8,060 ▲ 32

Rating: 4.50 (11)

Version: 0.8.64 (Last updated: 2023-06-27)

Creation date: 2021-11-27

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage
notifications
clipboardWrite
tabs

Size: 157.52K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1725

Other rankings

#358 in Search tools ▲ 72 #7 in selection keyword 7 ▲ 1 #30 in search keyword 30 ▼ 2 #225 in release keyword 18 ▲ 1 #271 in menu keyword 31 ▲

Other platforms

Selection Search (v0.9.0)

4.67 (517) 30,000

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Summary

Analyze keywords

This extension let you use text you have selected in a web page to search in various search engines.

The extension is highly configurable and let you customize what search engines to use, the look of the search menu and much more.

NOTE: This is the first released version of the extension for Microsoft Edge. Please report any issues you might find so we can try to fix it.

User reviews

hah, my favorite addon came to EDGE, welcome!

by Zhaofeng, 2021-04-12

Hope to add a shortcut to copy the selected text in the pop up menu. Thanks!

by Rui, 2020-12-12

doesnt work

by Trotyl, 2020-12-09

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Safety

Risk impact

Selection Search is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Selection Search if you trust the publisher.