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Keyboard shortcut to select any word and search the default search engine using the selected word(s) as the keyword

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Mar 15, 20266866 views
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I want to search google or whatever the default search engine is set in the browser, by selecting a few words in the web page. Can I do this with a simple shortcut, instead of copy pasting the word in the search box and hitting enter?

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Fix for: Keyboard shortcut to select any word and search the default search engine using the selected word(s) as the keyword

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Nobody's addressed the issue of how to select some text using the keyboard. Firefox and IE have Caret Browsing, activated by F7. It lets you move a text cursor (caret) around to both navigate the document and select text, much like a word processor …

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