Verbatim Search

Always use verbatim search with google

What is Verbatim Search?

Verbatim Search is a Chrome extension designed to optimize your Google search experience. It sets the default Google search to verbatim, ensuring your search results are purely based on the terms you input, bypassing Google's personalized or predictive algorithms. Over the years, this extension has seen significant improvements in terms of speed and functionality, including an integrated webRequest API for improved speed in version 1.3 and bug fixes, code cleaning, and updates in the following versions. It even includes an easy-to-use activation button to switch the feature on and off as needed.

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Extension stats

By: vikbez

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Users: 701 ▼ -5

Rating: 4.08 (26)

Version: 1.5 (Last updated: 2016-03-19)

Creation date: 2016-03-19

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
*://www.google.com/*
*://www.google.ad/*
*://www.google.ae/*
*://www.google.com.af/*
*://www.google.com.ag/*
*://www.google.com.ai/*
*://www.google.am/*
*://www.google.co.ao/*

Size: 9.92K

Ranking

# 36096 ▼ 289

Other rankings

#4784 in Tools ▼ 41 #84 in default search keyword 19 ▼ 6 #113 in search keyword 40 ▼ 28

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Makes the default google search always verbatim

-- New in version 1.5: cleaned code fixed manifest format

-- New in version 1.4: resolved bug with the new google maps updated google domains list less prone-to-conflict localStorage variable removed debug

User reviews

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Pros

Saves time for most searches
Easy access to Verbatim search option
Works as intended for some users
Great effort to enhance Google search capabilities

Cons

Cannot turn off temporarily without reloading
Button often shows incorrect status (enabled/disabled)
Breaks other Google search functionalities (e.g., Tools and filters)
Seems to be broken or buggy since last month
Overrides other filters like time-based results

Most mentioned

Issues with turning off or resetting the extension
Button functions incorrectly
Breaks additional filters on Google search
Recent bugs affecting functionality

Recent reviews

This is a great effort. It has limitations, but BRAVO vikbez for doing what Google should have put in the options.

Thomas King, 2020-06-26

Love this extension; really saves me time for most searches. But I'm having issues turning it off. Right now, the extension button is white, which means Verbatim mode should be "off." However, google is only searching in Verbatim mode. Because of the nature of the tool--which forces the webpage into Verbatim--when it's "on," you can't get the page to show all results; it will just jump back to verbatim. So when the button isn't working as designed, rather is "always on," that's a huge problem. Am on Macbook and Chrome.

Laurel Hell, 2020-01-20

I love this extension, but I HATE that I cannot turn it off temporarily at the top of a search. There is a dropdown and I can select "All results" instead of "Verbatim," but the page ALWAYS reloads with the Verbatim results (so there is the option, but it doesn't work). Since it is a pain to go into settings and turn it off, I end up switching to another browser to conduct a regular search and it is a huge pain.