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Right click Google search feature disappeared!

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bongobear
bongobear
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I used to be able to right click some highlighted text on a web page and be given the option to search for the text on google, a handy tool. Now for some reason its gone and im left with a similar option which says search secure search and i end up with it doing a yahoo search instead. I havent changed anything recently, not sure if it was an add on i downloaded or not. Please help!

I used to be able to right click some highlighted text on a web page and be given the option to search for the text on google, a handy tool. Now for some reason its gone and im left with a similar option which says ''search secure search'' and i end up with it doing a yahoo search instead. I havent changed anything recently, not sure if it was an add on i downloaded or not. Please help!

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youngspirit
youngspirit
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I think that it has something to do with your toolbar, the search engine in your toolbar is normally also your right click search engine, maybe you installed the yahoo toolbar accidentally. However, I do have an alternative, it is named clickto, you can see here what it does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O541tRimLMg&feature=player_embedded

hakibam
hakibam
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paste this into link bar- about:config

then search for- keyword.URL

double click, change back to- http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

then, restart your browser.