Simple = Select + Search

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 lookups all day — through your company's systems, a catalogue, a docs site, three different engines — you know the tax: copy, open a tab, find the site, paste, search. This removes it. ━━━ 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 one query there, copy the address, and swap your term for %s: example.com/search?q=%s That's the whole trick. It works for intranets, wikis, issue trackers, shops — anything with a search URL. Or skip the fiddling: open the built-in catalogue and add from 100+ ready-made entries — AI assistants, encyclopedias, shops, developer tools and more. ━━━ 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 v3.0.2 — The side panel is now open for everyone as a Pro preview: search with one engine or all of them from a docked panel, free to try until v3.1. Two new languages, bringing the total to twenty. The catalogue gained a one-click "Japan marketplaces" bundle plus a dozen Japanese shopping and auction sites. And the usage counters got honest: searches, set switches and installs are now told apart properly. v3 is a complete, ground-up rewrite. • Nested folders — asked for since 2014, finally here • Multiple sets, switchable from the toolbar • The 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 • 20 languages • A pile of old bugs, gone ━━━ 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. ━━━ 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, your browser's language, which browser family it runs in, the extension version and your plan (free or Pro) — 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 ━━━ 20 LANGUAGES The translations are community work — if yours reads badly, you can fix it on Crowdin.