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Safari for Windows

Use a Search Engine for Text Inside a Web Page

SUMMARY: Use Safari to perform a search engine query based on text inside a web page.

While browsing the web with Safari for Windows, you may come across some text on a web page on that you would like more information. Perhaps you need some text defined, want to access a company's webpage, or want more opinions on a particular issue.

You could copy the text and paste it into a search engine query, but there's an easier way.

Simply double-click a word, or use your mouse to select a phrase. Right-click the selected text and choose "Search with Google", or "Search with" the engine you have defined to be the default. Safari will query the search engine for your desired word or phrase.

Using the right mouse button to search Google for the word "Constitution", found in a Wikipedia article

Note that you cannot use this technique if the desired words are a hyperlink. However, if you highlight a space before or after the hyperlinked word/phrase and right-click directly on the highlighted space, the "Search with" option should appear.

This tip was written for Safari 3.1.2. Information and screenshots are subject to change.