# SearchTooLong

> Google limits queries to 32 words. This tool intelligently removes the least unique words in your query until there are less than 32 words. It includes two buttons to search it either on google or duckduckgo.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/searchtoolong](https://chrome-stats.com/d/searchtoolong)

## Overview

- **ID:** `searchtoolong`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jacob Hamilton
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-11-26
- **First published:** 2020-11-26
- **Size:** 2.18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchtoolong/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/jacobhamilton12/SearchTooLong](https://github.com/jacobhamilton12/SearchTooLong)

## Description

SearchTooLong is a Firefox add-on that helps you work around Google's query limit of 32 words. It intelligently removes the least unique words from your query until it has less than 32 words. With two buttons, you can easily search on Google or DuckDuckGo.

## Rankings

- #143,537 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `menus`
- `search`
- `webRequest`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/searchtoolong)