diff --git a/src/components/Settings/SearchBar.vue b/src/components/Settings/SearchBar.vue
index a78976c6..8fbf4877 100644
--- a/src/components/Settings/SearchBar.vue
+++ b/src/components/Settings/SearchBar.vue
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template>
-  <form>
+  <form @submit.prevent="searchSubmitted">
     <label for="filter-tiles">{{ $t('search.search-label') }}</label>
     <input
       id="filter-tiles"
@@ -16,12 +16,15 @@
 </template>
 
 <script>
-
+import router from '@/router';
 import ArrowKeyNavigation from '@/utils/ArrowKeyNavigation';
+import ErrorHandler from '@/utils/ErrorHandler';
 import { getCustomKeyShortcuts } from '@/utils/ConfigHelpers';
+import { searchEngineUrls, defaultSearchEngine, defaultSearchOpeningMethod } from '@/utils/defaults';
 
 export default {
   name: 'FilterTile',
+  inject: ['config'],
   props: {
     active: Boolean,
   },
@@ -74,6 +77,40 @@ export default {
         }
       });
     },
+    launchWebSearch(url, method) {
+      switch (method) {
+        case 'newtab':
+          window.open(url, '_blank');
+          break;
+        case 'sametab':
+          window.open(url, '_self');
+          break;
+        case 'workspace':
+          router.push({ name: 'workspace', query: { url } });
+          break;
+        default:
+          ErrorHandler(`Unknown opening method: ${method}`);
+          window.open(url, '_blank');
+      }
+    },
+    searchSubmitted() {
+      // Get search preferences from appConfig
+      const { appConfig } = this.config;
+      const searchPrefs = appConfig.webSearch || {};
+      if (!searchPrefs.disableWebSearch) { // Only proceed if user hasn't disabled web search
+        const openingMethod = searchPrefs.openingMethod || defaultSearchOpeningMethod;
+        // Get search engine, and make URL
+        const searchEngine = searchPrefs.searchEngine || defaultSearchEngine;
+        let searchUrl = searchEngineUrls[searchEngine];
+        if (!searchUrl) ErrorHandler(`Search engine not found - ${searchEngine}`);
+        if (searchEngine === 'custom' && searchPrefs.customSearchEngine) {
+          searchUrl = searchPrefs.customSearchEngine;
+        }
+        // Append users encoded query onto search URL, and launch
+        searchUrl += encodeURIComponent(this.input);
+        this.launchWebSearch(searchUrl, openingMethod);
+      }
+    },
   },
 };
 </script>
diff --git a/src/utils/defaults.js b/src/utils/defaults.js
index 10d18ad1..6ceb0a41 100644
--- a/src/utils/defaults.js
+++ b/src/utils/defaults.js
@@ -152,6 +152,35 @@ module.exports = {
     localPath: '/item-icons',
     faviconName: 'favicon.ico',
   },
+  /* URLs for web search engines */
+  searchEngineUrls: {
+    // Common
+    duckduckgo: 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=',
+    google: 'https://google.com/search?q=',
+    whoogle: 'https://whoogle.sdf.org/search?q=',
+    qwant: 'https://www.qwant.com/?q=',
+    startpage: 'https://www.startpage.com/do/search?query=',
+    // Niche
+    'searx-bar': 'https://searx.bar/search?q=',
+    'searx-info': 'https://searx.info/search?q=',
+    'searx-tiekoetter': 'https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q=',
+    'searx-bissisoft': 'https://searx.bissisoft.com/search?q=',
+    ecosia: 'https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=',
+    metager: 'https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=',
+    swisscows: 'https://swisscows.com/web?query=',
+    mojeek: 'https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=',
+    peekier: 'https://peekier.com/#!',
+    // Specific
+    wikipedia: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?search=',
+    stackoverflow: 'https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=',
+    wolframalpha: 'https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=',
+    reddit: 'https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=',
+    youtube: 'https://youtube.com/results?q=',
+    github: 'https://github.com/search?q=',
+    bbc: 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=',
+  },
+  defaultSearchEngine: 'duckduckgo',
+  defaultSearchOpeningMethod: 'newtab',
   /* Available built-in colors for the theme builder */
   swatches: [
     ['#eb5cad', '#985ceb', '#5346f3', '#5c90eb'],