Select Text to Search
4.8star
99 reviews
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About this app
This tiny app can add a "Web search" action to the text selection toolbar on Android.
It also adds a "Web search" as target for sharing text.
The default search engine can be configured in its settings page, openable in Custom Tabs toolbar, or the App info page for this app in system Settings.
Text selection toolbar requires Android 6.0 or above, so this app requires it as well.
https://github.com/zhanghai/TextSelectionWebSearch
It also adds a "Web search" as target for sharing text.
The default search engine can be configured in its settings page, openable in Custom Tabs toolbar, or the App info page for this app in system Settings.
Text selection toolbar requires Android 6.0 or above, so this app requires it as well.
https://github.com/zhanghai/TextSelectionWebSearch
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Ratings and reviews
4.9
97 reviews
Sungkyu Lee
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December 16, 2020
This feature should be standard in Android! Makes it so much easier to quickly select text and run a Google search. Is there any chance we can have it search using the default browser instead of the built in webview tab? Thanks for the great app!
15 people found this review helpful
Hai Zhang
December 16, 2020
You can click the settings icon in the custom tab page and turn off custom tabs there.
Al Jenny
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August 29, 2022
This is a great app that provides something I've wanted for years. One question though. When I open the selected text box, I see "Web search" offered twice. This does no harm. I'm still very happy to have this app, but why is it offered twice?
6 people found this review helpful
Hai Zhang
August 29, 2022
Chrome offers its own "Web search" action when inside Chrome, but not for other apps - while this app provides the action for all apps in the system. Since there's no way to opt out of showing the action for a single app, unfortunately users (including me) have to bear with a duplicate action inside Chrome.
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September 25, 2023
Doesn't let me select text, nor does a search appear. I might as well just select the address bar and type it in manually then I suppose
3 people found this review helpful
Hai Zhang
September 25, 2023
This app allows you to select text in other apps, and there will be an additional "Web search" action in the floating toolbar that appears when you select any text. The new action might be hidden until you click the right arrow in that floating toolbar though. See also the screenshots on Play.
What's new
- Updated app to target Android 14.
