Designating the Default Search Engine


Google is the default search engine for Lookup Selection in the terminal context menu. It can be changed to a different default by doing the following:

1.   Make a note of the Configuration folder, which can be found in the Global Options dialog, then close SecureCRT.

2.   In the configuration folder, edit Global.INI and look for Search Engine Command For Selection Lookup.

3.  To specify a different search engine, such as DuckDuckGo, change the line to:

S:"Search Engine Command For Selection Lookup"=www.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Here is the syntax to use for other search engines:

Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s
Yahoo: https://search.yahoo.com/search?q=%s
Naver: https://search.naver.com/search.naver?query=%s

4.   Save Global.INI and restart SecureCRT. When you select some text and then choose Lookup Selection from the right-click menu, the default web browser will open and do a lookup on the selected text with the specified search engine.