Make AskRobots your default search

Search from your browser's address bar with AskRobots. It takes a minute, and you can switch back any time.

Works anywhere a browser asks for a search address:
https://search.askrobots.com/search?q=%s&source=opensearch

Firefox

On this site, click the ⋯ menu in the address bar (or right-click the address bar) and choose Add “AskRobots”.
Open Settings → Search and set Default Search Engine to AskRobots.

Firefox on Android: Settings → Search → Default search engine → Add search engine, then use the address above.

Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi

Do one search on this site (that's how the browser notices AskRobots).
Open Settings → Search engine → Manage search engines (Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Address bar and search).
Find AskRobots under site search (or click Add and paste the address above), then choose ⋮ → Make default.

Chrome on Android: after a search here, AskRobots appears in Settings → Search engine under “Recently visited”.

Safari (Mac, iPhone, iPad)

Safari only lets you choose from a fixed list (Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia); Apple doesn't allow other search engines as the default. Options:

Install a Safari extension that sends address-bar searches to a search address of your choice, and give it the address above.
Or bookmark search.askrobots.com on your home screen or in your favorites.
Or use Firefox or Chrome on that device.

What changes

Searches from your address bar go to AskRobots, with our suggestions as you type. We don't track you: there's no account, and searches are only counted anonymously (see how results work). Address-bar searches carry source=opensearch so we can count, without knowing who, how many people use us as their default.