winSsearch is a tiny Windows utility for instant web searches. It automatically copies the highlighted text in the current window, switches to your browser and does a new search.
- Download and run winSsearch.exe
- Select some text anywhere (on your Desktop, in Microsoft Word etc)
- Press Windows logo key + S
- Your web browser runs the search
Tip: copy winSsearch.exe to your Startup folder in your Start menu so that it’s aways running.
Example screenshots:
Select text in Word
Or select text somewhere else
Win-S switches to your browser and runs the search
This saves me about 10 seconds on every search I do. In my case that adds up to quite a lot of time in a day. Google is your friend!
What do you think?
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Looks very neat. How do I download it? I have IE7 and no matter what I try I cannot seem to download this to try it out. Some kind of SNAP thing keeps interfering, I think.
-K-
Hi Kevix, I disabled SNAP and fixed another problem with my web server. Could you try downloading again? Let me know what you think.
[…] winsSearch – Tiny, free Windows application that lets you search with a simple keystroke. Just highlight the word or phrase, hit the ‘Windows’ and ‘S’ key simultaneously, and you can perform a Google search from anywhere within Windows. […]
perfect tool
Windows + S interferes with the Microsoft Office OneNote shortcut for [S]creen clipping. Consider using another shortcut.