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OS: Chrome
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Type: Feature



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Google Search shortcut for highlighted text

Reported by ringosta...@gmail.com, May 17 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9557.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3101.0 Safari/537.36
Platform: 9557.0.0 (Official Build) canary-channel samus

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Highlight any text
2. Right click
3. Notice how there are keyboard shortcut options available for copying, printing, and inspecting but not for the "Search Google for "[the word(s) you highlighted]"" option.

What is the expected behavior?
A keyboard shortcut would help save time by eliminating unnecessary clicks. Imagine being able to double click to highlight on a work or term you don't know hitting a key combination like "alt+shift+z" or something else to open up a new tab with a Google Search for it. I'm sure an extension could do that but it should be there built in.

What went wrong?
There are too many steps needed to search for a highlighted term. You should be able to do it without a mouse.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 60.0.3101.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: 9557.0.0
Flash Version: 

I love y'all but it is the little things that really make products feel complete. Keep up the great work! :)
 
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Comment 2 by pbe...@chromium.org, Nov 10 2017

Components: -UI UI>Input>KeyboardShortcuts
Cc: afakhry@chromium.org
Owner: ovanieva@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
cool FR - will evaluate and make a decision. 

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