Big Search

Friendly to novices, satisfying to experts. For daily, entertainment & work. 🌟 Besides what any multi-engine web search tool can do (GET/POST, user custom engines, built-in Google,DuckDuckGo,Youtube,eBay,Github etc) , it also can ✨:

• 🖋️ Single-line or multi-line text
• ⌨️ Every search step can be done by just keyboard, without mouse. It's UI has built-in Vimium-like feature. Keys can quickly call different search engines
• 🖥️ Desktop (browser extension / web app) and mobile (web app)
• 🔎 Even works with websites that don't provide GET/POST interface (so-called In-page-Ajax-render websites)
• 🔎 Do many operations at once by one button
• 💪 User JSON programatical advanced customization (GUI easy editing also). Great flexibility in engine data & search method

and so on... Go on for readme

Disclaimer: This is an open-source user-customizable third-party tool. We are not employee or working with those search engines.

Basic

• 🔎 Use any search engines or inquery websites (multiple simultaneously) from one page. Any websites that support GET/POST request.

  E.g: Google, DuckDuckGo, Youtube, eBay, Github etc. Customizable. 60+ built-in.

• 🔎 User adding custom-defined search engine (syncronizable in extension)

More

• 🖋️ Single-line or multi-line text edit/input and sending

  Useful when for e.g. you want to have article paragraphs translated

• 🗂️ Search engines categorization
• 📋 Save, reuse and manage your input history (only saved locally in the browser localStorage)
• 🖱️ Quickly use user selected text on webpage as search term ( context menu)

  • Not in Firefox incognito mode

• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut ( you may need to change )
  • Open popup. Firefox: Ctrl+Alt+S Chrome & others：Ctrl+Shift+S
  • Set selected text as search term and open popup. Firefox: Ctrl+Alt+D Chrome & others：Ctrl+Shift+D

  change on Chrome: chrome://extensions/shortcuts

• 🖥️ UI adapted multiply: Desktop (browser extension or web app) and mobile (web app only). Extention can show UI in: toolbar button popup UI, standalond tab, or sidebar (browser native)

Even more: What's special about it

• 🔎 Even works with those websites that don't provide GET/POST interface to public (so-called In-page-Ajax-render websites)
• 🔎 Do many operations at once by one button
• ✨ Good-looking, powerful and lightweight
• 💪 Uses JSON as unified search engines database (both built-in and user-defined). Has strong flexibility & extensibility in engine data:
  • 🔲 Multiple buttons for one engine: more than one operations for one engine. (Buttons inherit data from engine. Some key-value data ​​in button can override the ones in engine name)
  • 📞 Cross-engine use: Call another engine (or it's certain button action) to do the action
  • 🔏 String-formatting or character-replacing user's input, according to engine's need. And, charset specifying.
  • 🔎 Combining above two to search websites that don't support search

Safety & Privacy

• 🛡️ Pure client-side tool functions fully. No necessary server. No collecting user's input or ad analyzing.
• 🛡️ Browser extension does not inject anything to web sites. (except when using In-page-Ajax-render engine)

How to edit search engines

Ordinary users who only use basic features can directly use our online gui engine-editing tool

(Read more at source code page: https://github.com/garywill/BigSearch )