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Smart Search Router

by Stuart Luo · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 19 Oct 2026

Automatically routes your searches to Google or Baidu based on real-time network accessibility.

Users
6
+2 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#239K
#200K among extensions
Version
1.0.1
updated 7 Apr 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months
036Feb 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 19 Oct 2026: 6 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 8 months
001Feb 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 19 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Smart Search Router

Smart Search Router automatically routes your searches to Google or Baidu based on real-time network accessibility. If Google is reachable, searches go to Google. If not, they go to Baidu — no manual switching needed. Designed for users in regions where Google availability is inconsistent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SETUP (ONE TIME) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ After installing the extension: 1. Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines 2. Under "Site search", click Add 3. Fill in: · Search engine: Smart Search · Keyword: ss · URL: https://smartsearch.local/?q=%s 4. Click Add ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ USAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Option A — Set as default: Find Smart Search in chrome://settings/searchEngines → three-dot menu → Make default. All address bar searches will now route automatically. Option B — Use only when needed: Type "ss" in the address bar, press Space, type your query, press Enter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OTHER FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ · Click the extension icon to see current Google accessibility status · Use Manual Override in the popup to force Baidu regardless of detected status · No data collected — all processing happens locally on your device Source code and privacy policy: https://github.com/Stuart0l/SmartSearch-ChromeExt Version 1.0.1 - Added Settings tab with configurable fallback search engine - Added adjustable connectivity check interval

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days+2+50.0%00.00
6 months+4+200.0%00.00

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.0.17 Apr 2026
1.0.026 Feb 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
26 Feb 2026
Size
33 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
iamhfaajanfjllfodicafhnjmjacleig

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
declarativeNetRequestdeclarativeNetRequestWithHostAccessstoragealarmswebNavigation
Site access
*://smartsearch.local/*https://www.google.com/generate_204

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