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Originally Posted by ivanatpr
Is there a way to quickly search google or wikipedia for the word under the cursor? If its in the dictionary, I can open up the dictionary entry and then easily go from there to a wikipedia search for that word. However, for words without a dictionary entry (exactly the ones I'd want to wikipedia), I can't find a way to do this, short of typing out the word and manually doing the search, which strikes me as a less than ideal solution. Just pointing the cursor at a word that's not in the dictionary doesn't do anything.
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Per the Kindle Keyboard Shortcuts site (see link in my sig), this should work for you.
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Searching
* To copy text from a book to the search box (eg to search for a character’s name):
o Use the 5-way to cursor down to the beginning of the text you want to copy
o Click the 5-way to mark the beginning
o Use the 5-way to move right, selecting the word(s) you want to search for
o Instead of clicking again as you would to save a highlight, press SPACEBAR
o The selected words are now in the search box. Move the cursor down or right, delete any extraneous characters, then move down and right to highlight ‘Find’. Click to search.
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In your case you would just just select Google or Wikipedia. I just tried it and it worked for Google.