Workflow help: Search for clipboard contents in Google?

[switters]

I frequently do research where I look up the references at the end of a scientific paper. The steps involved are as follows:

1. Select the name of the paper in the PDF on my computer, and copy to clipboard
2. Invoke Alfred
3. Use the keyword "Google" to trigger a Google search, followed by typing spacebar
4. Paste the copied text into Alfred
5. Hit return

This isn't all that laborious, but I'd love to create a workflow where I could just invoke a keystroke after #1 above and have steps 2-5 done automatically. 

 

I've never created a workflow before and I'm not particularly tech savvy. I'd appreciate your help with setting this up. Thanks!

[dfay]

You can skip the copying and use a hot key with selected text as the parameter. If that doesn't make sense reply and I'll put up some examples later

[switters]

You can skip the copying and use a hot key with selected text as the parameter. If that doesn't make sense reply and I'll put up some examples later

 

I tried to figure this out, using the "paste text clip from hotkey" template in the Workflows pane, but I wasn't able to. If you can help that would be great. 

[switters]

Wait! I figured it out. Thanks for the suggestion. 

[dfay]

By the way....if you don't have it already, this is invaluable:

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2224-reference-importer/?hl=%2Breference+%2Bimporter