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Compare Chrome extensions: Easy Search vs Quick Search

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Stats Easy Search Easy Search Quick Search Quick Search
User count 6,000+ 873
Average rating 1.75 3.67
Rating count 4 9
Last updated 2014-01-02 2022-05-08
Size 11.57K 10.53K
Version 0.1 2.0.2
Short description
Press Ctrl+Shift+S (Command+Shift+S on a Mac) to search for the selected text on Google. Search selected text quickly on Google, Wikipedia, Twitter or Amazon by hitting a key on your keyboard.
Full summary

This nifty extensions helps you quicky search on the Google search engine the current highlighted text. Simply press the key combination (Ctrl+Shift+S) to search the selected text on Google.

Select a text and hit:

  • Alt+S to search on Google

  • Alt+W to search on Wikipedia

  • Alt+T to search on Twitter

  • Alt+A to search on Amazon

  • You can change the shortcuts. Use "Keyboard shortcuts" in the Chrome extension settings to do that.

  • Click on the extension icon to enable / disable the extension temporarily.

  • Google Translate search is removed in Version 2.0, due to Chrome's maximum shortcut limit of 4. It will be added soon with the context menu search feature.

  • Customizing the websites to search will be possible with the options feature in the next version.

  • This extension does not mess with your data. You can view the full source code of this extension at GitHub: https://github.com/serd/quick-search