Quick Search Widget (with ads)

Ozmium

Contains ads

About this app

Quick Search Widget 🔍 is a fast and lightweight App for searching the web easily. It gives you quick shortcuts to various websites and apps, and it includes a Widget for your Home Screen - similar to the pre-installed Search Bar widget.

All the high-quality popular search engines are available in the app. All languages and countries are supported for each linked website. The available search engines are:

🔸 General web searches
🔸 Image searching
🔸 Online encyclopedia
🔸 Micro-blogging and social network searches
🔸 Maps, Apps, News and Weather Forecasts, from all over the world
🔸 Online video searching
🔸 Search in the online shopping sites
🔸 Custom search engine - for any website that's not available

Note: All the linked websites have registered trademarks of their respective companies. Ozmium is not associated with any of the linked search engines or websites.

✅ Switch between different Search Engines with one click.

✅ Instant search suggestions, direct from the relevant websites. Tap them repeatedly to refine your search.

✅ It's faster than doing a search in the web browser. Auto-text corrections are enabled for the on-screen keyboard, for faster typing.

✅ Recent search history: View your complete history and delete individual items with swipe actions.

✅ Add your own Search Engine. Setup a custom Search Engine to any website.

✅ You can reorder the list of search engines any way you want. Use long-press, then drag items up or down. (Switch off 'Mini Search' first)

✅ Quick Search is fast, lightweight and easy-to-use. The search results open directly in your web browser.

✅ Add multiple Widgets to your Home Screen, and customize each one as you want.

✅ Voice Search.

✅ It's an "Assist app", so you can open the app from anywhere, by long-pressing the Home button. See https://goo.gl/ZdD0ZH

🔹 Many different languages and countries are supported. You can easily change the language/country settings within the app, and the Search Engines will adapt.

🔹 Choose which web browser to open, in the Settings❗️ Convenient if you have several browsers installed.

🔹 Free software, with advertisements. (The Paid version has no advertisements)

🔹 No intrusive permissions or background services are used, and it's fast to startup.

🔹 Quick Search requires 2 permissions: Internet Access - To retrieve search suggestions from the selected website. Network State - To detect Wi-Fi and provide the best performance.

The app is localized to 14 different languages. But the Search Engines work in virtually all global languages.

Note: Install to SD Card is not allowed on this app, because it stops the Widgets working properly.

We do not collect or monitor any web searches. Your history records are saved on your personal device only. We have a strong privacy record for over 9 years on the Google Play Store.

Email your comments and suggestions to Ozmium.

Privacy Policy: https://ozmium.net/quick-search-free-app/privacy-policy/en/

Ratings and reviews

I liked the app much better when it allowed you to choose what web browser to open for a particular search. It's really frustrating to have to choose a default browser. Please add the "System Default: Ask" as a choice back in Choose a Web Browser to Open to have the "System Default: Ask" pop-up list to be a choice again.

Originally thought it's lousy, but realized I tested widgets only. However, when launched (right app can put apps on notifications or use JINA Sidebar - or the long home press, though didn't work, but likely as I use Nova Launcher, and I need to set helper app from Nova settings). It's faster than opening a browser, I also set it to always open Better Open With, the gold standard of opening anything from list of suitable apps with option to hide unwanted and choose a defaut (for timeout).

I only gave it 4 stars because I set a setting and when I went back into settings to switch it back the setting was gone lol. The setting was visibility of background image ....i set it to zero which is how I want it but I went back in to play with the slider a bit to see how it affected the look and i can't find that damn slider . Otherwise it's a 5 star app. If you respond and tell me how to get back to that setting I'll change my rating to a five star.

What's new

28 August 2023, version 6.0
✅ Fixed problems with search suggestions from Amazon.
✅ Fixed bugs when changing the system language. When you change the device language in the Settings app, sometimes the search engines would not update to the new language. This is now fixed.
✅ For the Latin-American Spanish countries, the search results for weather forecasts now use Celcius instead of Fahrenheit.
✅ Fixed problems on the screen that shows Licenses and Acknowledgements.