SearchAI

SearchAI turns the Chrome start page search bar into a hybrid of AI chat and regular search. The interaction model is deliberately minimal: you type into the same box you already use for Google, and the punctuation at the end decides what happens. End a sentence with a question mark and the extension routes it to a built-in text-based AI, which replies directly on the start page instead of opening a new tab or a chat app. Leave the question mark off and the keystrokes behave exactly as before, resolving to whichever search engine is most relevant for that query.

The goal is to remove the four or five steps people normally take — open a tab, load an AI service, paste the question, come back — and collapse them into one motion. For quick, factual lookups such as weather, recipe ratios, beginner workout tips or a summary of a current trend, that shortcut is genuinely useful, because you never leave the page you were about to search from anyway.

Privacy is a stated design point: the developer says no conversation history is stored, and the Chrome Web Store privacy disclosure states the extension does not collect or use your data or sell it to third parties. The extension is small (about 1.17 MB), ships localised strings for English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Hindi, and remains freely installable with no account required.