Web Bear Search

Change default search engine to make Web Bear Search your default search in Chrome browser omnibox.

Users200K

Rating1.4

Reviews23

Manifest versionV3

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2026年5月30日2026年6月5日

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Version1.0.2

ManifestV3

Size11.99KiB

Languages1English

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The "Web Bear Search" extension allows you to quickly and more efficiently search for the desired text directly through the address bar (omnibox) in the "Web Bear Search" engine. Search provided by Yahoo.

Features of "Web Bear Search" extension:

- Fast and simple installation

- Free and safe Google Chrome extension

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Changes Chrome's default search engine (omnibox) to 'Web Bear Search', which redirects search queries through webbearsearch.com and ultimately delivers Yahoo search results.

Provides an alternative search experience by overriding Chrome's default omnibox search to route through the Web Bear Search service (Yahoo-powered). In practice, this is a search monetization extension that earns referral revenue from Yahoo.

1. User installs extension. 2. Chrome default search engine is overridden to webbearsearch.com/search. 3. A random session ID is generated, stored in chrome.storage.local, and sent to webbearsearch.com/start. 4. Every omnibox search query is routed to webbearsearch.com/search?q={searchTerms}&session={id}. 5. Results are displayed (Yahoo-powered). 6. On uninstall, a beacon is sent to webbearsearch.com/uninstall.

Target users: General Chrome users who install this search extension (likely unintentionally given the 1.35 star rating with 200k users)

Cannot verify actual search results or whether webbearsearch.com injects ads/tracking into Yahoo results
Cannot confirm the exact monetization model (likely Yahoo search referral revenue)

Monetization

No paid features detected

No payment, billing, subscription, or premium feature logic exists anywhere in the extension code. The store description explicitly states 'Free and safe Google Chrome extension'. The 'pro' keyword hits are false positives: 'payload' in base64-encoded verified_contents.json and 'search_provider' in manifest.json.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: No login, authentication, or account creation is required. The 'session' in bg.js is a randomly generated 32-character tracking ID created client-side on install (line 6), not an authenticated user session. It is used purely for analytics/tracking via webbearsearch.com endpoints.

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jamesgriffin2512

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