Compare Chrome extensions: Easy Search vs xSearch

Stats Easy Search Easy Search xSearch xSearch
User count 6,000+ 57
Average rating 1.75 5.00
Rating count 4 1
Last updated 2014-01-02 2014-11-10
Size 11.57K 109.57K
Version 0.1 1.0
Short description
Press Ctrl+Shift+S (Command+Shift+S on a Mac) to search for the selected text on Google. xSearch simplifies and centralizes all your Searches.
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.

xSearch, the centralized Search Interface using Regular Expression as the syntax to represent unique query criteria of different web system, simplifies your dull and repetitive Searches.

In your company you have many web systems like HR, Salary and Project system. When you search John Smith, you expect to go to link http://hr.company.com/search.php?firstname=John&lastname=Smith to see his Contact information, if to search his Employee ID 123456 to check hist Salary you expect to visit http://salary.company.com/s.cgi?empid=123456, and search john.smith you check his Project activity on link http://project.company.com/index.jsp?name=john.smith&showProject=y. You have to do these every time and every day. xSearch relieves you.

If URL Token is %%%, we have these settings for above scenario.

Name: Search HR Syntax: ^[A-Z][a-z]+\s[A-Z][a-z]+$ Target URL: http://hr.company.com/search.php?firstname=%%%1&lastname=%%%2

Name: Search Salary Syntax: ^\d{5,8}$ Target URL: http://salary.company.com/s.cgi?empid=%%%1

Name: Search Project

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