Abstract: The invention discloses a touch interaction based search method and apparatus, comprising: receiving a trigger instruction from a user for conducting search based on a current interface; receiving a touch slide operation performed by the user on the current interface, and determining a slide area according to the touch slide operation; and based on the slide area, extracting an object therein and conducting search with respect to the object. Employment of the invention can solve the problem of slow and inconvenient search via a keyboard (including a soft keyboard), save operations such as opening a search box, copy & paste, etc., make the search operation simple and easy, solve the problem of search if one wants on a touch interaction based terminal, save time and improve user's experience.