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Select text, right-click, search — on the engines you choose. Group them, switch sets, or fire them all at once. Select some text. Right-click. Search it — on the engine you actually wanted. That's the whole idea, and it's been the whole idea since 2011. If you run the same searches all day — through your company's systems, a catalogue, a docs site, three different search engines — you know the tax: copy, open a tab, find the site, paste, search. This removes it. "We use Chrome exclusively at work and run 50+ searches a day through various systems. Your extension is an extreme time saver!" — funkeywoookey, via the Chrome Web Store, 2019 ━━━ HOW IT WORKS 1. Select text on any page. 2. Right-click. Your engines are right there in the menu. 3. Pick one. It searches. That's it. ━━━ ANY SITE CAN BE A SEARCH ENGINE If a site has a search box, it can live in your right-click menu. Run a search on it, copy the address, and swap your search term for %s: https://example.com/search?q=%s That's the whole trick. It works for intranets, wikis, library catalogues, issue trackers, shops, docs — anything with a search URL. Or skip the fiddling: open the built-in catalogue and add from 100+ ready-made engines — web search, AI assistants, encyclopedias, video, shopping, developer tools, news and research databases. ━━━ SEARCH EVERYWHERE One selection, every engine in your set, one tab each. For when you don't know which source has the answer. ━━━ ORGANISE IT • Folders — group your engines, and nest them up to five deep. AI tools in one, work systems in another. • Sets — separate collections, like Work, Personal and Research. Switch from the toolbar; your right-click menu changes with it. • Drag and drop — reorder anything, including inside folders. • Your rules — new tab or new window, where the tab opens, incognito per engine. ━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v3 v3.0.1 — We removed the "Display notifications" permission. We added it in 3.0 to show a one-time message after your settings were upgraded, but it wasn't really needed — and we didn't realize Chrome would turn the extension off for everyone until the new permission was approved. That's on us, and we're sorry. This update asks for nothing new: Chrome re-enables the extension automatically, and all your engines and settings are exactly where you left them. v3 is a complete, ground-up rewrite. It took far longer than I'd like to admit. • Nested folders — asked for since 2014, finally here • Multiple sets, switchable from the toolbar • The engine catalogue — browse and add, no %s needed • Drag-and-drop reordering, including inside folders • A rebuilt migration that brings your v2 engines across automatically, and keeps your old settings as a backup it never deletes • 18 languages • A pile of old bugs, gone ━━━ FREE, AND FREE SINCE 2011 Everything above is free, and it stays free. Pro comes later, in v3.1, as a way to support the project — it'll switch on the pieces that need real upkeep, like cross-browser sync and the side panel. Both are visible in v3.0 as previews so you can see what's coming. Nothing you use today moves behind it. And if you don't want or need Pro, you can still buy me a coffee. It genuinely keeps the lights on. ☕️ ━━━ ABOUT YOUR DATA — STRAIGHT • The text you select never reaches me. It goes to the engine you picked, by ordinary browser navigation — exactly as if you'd typed it into that site's own search box. • Your engines, folders and sets live in your browser. Nothing sits on my servers. There are no accounts, and nothing is ever sold. • The extension does count usage in Google Analytics — pseudonymously, under a persistent random install ID. What's counted: that a search ran, that the popup or settings opened, that an engine was added from the catalogue. Each event carries that install ID, a session ID and your browser's language — and, for searches, only the domain of the engine you used. The text you searched is never in there. This is on by default in v3.0. • One honest caveat: the domain of a custom engine is counted too. If the domain itself is private — an intranet hostname, say — it's in there. The rest of the address never leaves your browser. The full detail, in plain language: https://simpleselectsearch.com/privacy ━━━ 18 LANGUAGES The translations are community work — if yours reads badly, you can fix it on Crowdin. ━━━ I built this in 2011 as a new father, browsing from the couch one-handed with a baby in the other arm. Everything took too long. So I made this. It's still me. Nights and weekends. Thank you for using it.