Search It Highlighter

Search It Highlighter

Easily google, bing, yahoo, etc. search any highlighted text!

Search It Highlighter
What is Search It Highlighter?
Search It Highlighter is a Chrome extension that enables you to search highlighted text using Google, Bing, or Yahoo search engines. With a simple press of a key, you can search text on the page and even double tap to auto-search with Google. Note that only text can be searched, and credit to Freepik for the icon.
Stats
By: Unknown
Users: 2 ▼ -1
Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2019-07-25)
Creation date: 2019-07-19
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 17.63K
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Summary

Highlight any text on the page and simply press the 'g' key to open up the option to search that text using either the Google, Bing, or Yahoo search engines.

Other features:

  • Double tap the 'g' key to automatically use Google to search for the selected text.

Notes:

  • Only highlighted text that is part of the DOM can be searched.
  • As indicated, only text can be searched and not images and any other entities that can be highlighted.

Credit to Freepik (https://www.freepik.com/) for providing the icon.

Safety
Risk impact

Search It Highlighter is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Search It Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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