The Official 2010: How to search! Now with GoogleŽ

[Ralphie]

Ok so ive been using this method to search for things for a while now and im not sure how many people know that it exists.

It is a feature built into all new web browsers.

I checked Google Chrome(obv), Mozilla, Safari, and IE and found that all but IE(obv) have the feature built in.

So what is this mysterious new feature?

I like to call it my quick draw search!

What you do is simply highlight any text on any webpage that you wish to search for, i.e. A phone model, a car brand, a muffler type, or a sexy chick's name and after highlighting it right click the word or words.

A pop up menu will show up and you will need to click the option that says, "Search Google".

Now in all the browsers i tested it opened a new tab except Safari. Safari loads the google search on the page you were actually on but im sure you could tweak these settings under the hood.

So now if you want to find a part or something for your cb and you can't find it using the regular search on here or even using the google search with site:

You could always just find the keyword or keywords and highlight and right click and all the hardwork of opening a new tab and typing coherently and hitting search are taken care of.

Here are some snapshots of the 3 browsers ive tested to show you what it looks like.

Safari-



Google Chrome-




And of course Mozilla Firefox-





Thought this might be helpful.

Sticky it if you like.

Thanks for looking!

With 3 ways to search now the newbs have no excuse!!!

[MikeW]

My IE has this feature only it's through Bing.

[cbscandal]

My IE has it with google.
It even goes so far as to automatically enter whatever I've highlighted into the google search function in my toolbar. No right click, just one left.

[cp[mike]]

They are called browser Accelerators, and they come in the newer IEs. Chrome and others have had it for a little while in their right click menu. Linux browsers use highlight+middle click. Personally I have them turned of, because I often highlight along with what im reading and those popups got mighty annoying...

[Ralphie]

My IE has this feature only it's through Bing.

Well as Conan said, the 2nd most popular search on Bing was, "wtf is bing".


I don't use IE so i wouldn't know, i opened it and tried to do it through right click and i saw no option to search so idk.

[jamaicancb3]

There should be something like this that automatically pops up for the noobs and douches that keep asking the same old thing about "how, what, blah blah...silly nooby questions instead of bloody searching.

[HondaB18]

They are called browser Accelerators, and they come in the newer IEs. Chrome and others have had it for a little while in their right click menu. Linux browsers use highlight+middle click. Personally I have them turned of, because I often highlight along with what im reading and those popups got mighty annoying...

How do you turn it off in Mozilla?

[Ralphie]

How do you turn it off in Mozilla?

I just tried to figure it out and i couldn't....sorry bud.