Geek Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/search-google-from-textedit.jpg" alt="Search Google from TextEdit" title="search-google-from-textedit" width="620" height="371" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24808" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> and several default apps have a built-in ability to quickly search the web. Highlight any text in the Finder, Preview, or TextEdit, and then hit <strong>Command+Shift+L</strong> to launch Safari with a Google search for the highlighted text selection. </p> <p>The web browser will be set to Safari regardless of your default browser settings and doesn’t appear to be customizable. However, you can select either Google, Bing, or Yahoo as the search engine for the keyboard shortcut by going into Safari’s Preferences:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/change-search-safari.jpg" alt="Search default options in Safari" title="change-search-safari" width="615" height="261" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24810" /></p> <p>Other apps beyond the three mentioned likely have the same ability, but the Command+Shift+L keyboard shortcut in Safari opens Reading List rather than searching the web. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQ05HrpGMtM6xbwy02sDi-zFBwQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQ05HrpGMtM6xbwy02sDi-zFBwQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQ05HrpGMtM6xbwy02sDi-zFBwQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQ05HrpGMtM6xbwy02sDi-zFBwQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=XJvv48TwE-o:bdVezq7vv44:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/XJvv48TwE-o" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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