Simple = Select + Search icon

Simple = Select + Search

by Diego Presno · simpleselectsearch.com · Tools
FeaturedEstablished publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Select text, right-click, search — on the engines you choose. Group them, switch sets, or fire them all at once.

Users
10K
0 in 30 days
Rating
3.9 / 5
−0.47 in 30 days
Ratings
237
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#7,025
#6,006 among extensions
Version
3.0.2
updated 17 Aug 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
3,00016K30KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 10,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
60148237Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 237 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Simple = Select + Search

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.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0−0.47
30 days0+0.0%0−0.47
6 months−10K−50.0%+2−0.47
1 year−10K−50.0%+2−0.45

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Simple = Select + Search appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
search box#25−8

Version history

23 versions recorded
3.0.217 Aug 2026
3.0.18 Aug 2026
3.0.03 Aug 2026
2.3.721 Feb 2025
2.3.621 Jan 2025
2.3.526 Nov 2024
2.3.413 Nov 2024
2.3.210 Oct 2024

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
6 Jul 2019
Size
830 KB
Languages
de, en, nl, tr, ca, da, es, fr
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
simpleselectsearch.com
Support
simpleselectsearch.com
Extension ID
aagminaekdpcfimcbhknlgjmpnnnmooo

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 1
Permissions
storagecontextMenusalarmssidePanel
Site access
https://simpleselectsearch.com/*

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