Chrome extension to paste clipboard content and search/go to the url

Question

It's hard to put a title for this, but is there a Google Chrome extension that gives me a context menu option to navigate to the url or search for the words in my clipboard.

By that I mean:

If my clipboard content was:

• www.google.com or maybe http://www.google.com then on clicking the context menu button, I would be taken to Google. But if it was
• softwarerecs rules then clicking on the context menu button would take me to a Google search of softwarerecs rules

Requirements:

• free
• Windows 7 chrome compatible
• context menu or maybe keyboard shortcut
• extension looks at the clipboard, detects whether it is a url or random words and does the appropriate action

Answer 1

Yep - it's called right click. On most OSs if you have something on the clipboard and click into the address bar then right click you will see options for "Paste" and "Paste & Search".

Taken on Kubuntu 14.04

You can also use standard keyboard shortcuts such as Control-V in the address bar.

• Free
• Most Platforms including windows XP..7 maybe even 8 & 10 personally I never trust anything from MS with an even number - remember DOS4, Win2000,...
• No download
• Both context menu and keyboard
• Minimal user intelligence needed to "do the right thing" - actually if you paste anything but a URL Chrome will search providing you have a default search engine set.

Answer 2

If you use voice recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Windows/Mac, non-free), you can create the voice command:

I use it daily, it's very convenient, especially with the Google Chrome extension Auto Copy which automatically copies selected text to the clipboard.