Allsearchsite.com - How to remove

Allsearchsite.com is a search engine that works as an advertising site. It promotes other fake search engines, as well as browser hijackers. As Allsearchsite.com lacks the features that make search engines useful, it’s unlikely that people visit it on purpose. So, if you find yourself on Allsearchsite.com unexpectedly and if it happens often, consider that an adware add-on or program may be causing this.

About Allsearchsite.com:

Classification	Adware, potentially unwanted program.
How Allsearchsite.com spreads	With browser-hijacking extensions and ads on other low-quality search engines.
Problems and issues	Too many ads, irrelevant ads, ads for potentially unwanted programs and sites.
How to stop ads by Allsearchsite.com	Check your notification settings, find and remove potentially unwanted programs and browser extensions manually or with an anti-malware program (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

How Allsearchsite.com works

Allsearchsite.com is an alternative search engine. It’s by Ask Media Group. It can be used to search the internet, just like Google, Bing, and other engines. It’s generally not as good as the more popular engines, it lacks a lot of features, but despite that, it gets almost a million visits each month.

People visit it unintentionally

Allsearchsite.com may be advertised online. Have you ever clicked on an advertisement only to be taken to a search results page?

However, I first noticed Allsearchsite.com because its traffic was related to other dubious search engines, such as Hidemyhistory.co, Info.com, Searchincognito.com, Kensaq.com, Fastquicksearch.com, etc. These sites or Allsearchsite.com don’t look suspicious on their own. But they are related to a few shady browser extensions.

Malicious browser extensions are spread by misleading ads or by infected installers. Either way, people who install them expect to get their browser enhanced, not to have their search engine hijacked. As a result, people may not even realize why it is that their internet search is behaving strangely.

Problems with Allsearchsite.com

Even though Allsearchsite.com looks like an internet search engine, it has some issues.

Limited search results

Allsearchsite.com seems to only search a limited number of websites. As a result, it finds very few results.  Often, Allsearchsite.com would fail to find more than 2 or 3 pages worth of results. Compare that to Google, which would find millions of results for the same query.

Allsearchsite.com’s sources are selected by its owners – Ask. I did notice that the results were often irrelevant. That’s what you get when you only have a limited number of sites to search.

Ask, as an advertising site, may be using Allsearchsite.com to promote their other websites to make more money from ads. I noticed that articles on Ask.com came up often in Allsearchsite.com’s results.

Lack of features

Allsearchsite.com has almost no features to speak of. You can’t filter by date, language, or location. There’s no way to choose to search for videos, images, or locations. There’s no news section.

With such a lack of features, I doubt that anyone uses Allsearchsite.com intentionally.

Too many ads

Above and below Allsearchsite.com’s search results, there are ads. They are often irrelevant and take up too much space. Where I would not get any ads for a query in Google, I’d get eight advertisements for the same query in Allsearchsite.com.

Even on pages where Allsearchsite.com would not find any search results, it would still display ads.

These ads are delivered by Google, as Allsearchsite.com is using Google’s custom search engine in the background. A lot of sites abuse it to make a bit of advertising money (though, as Google gets a cut, I doubt that they mind).

Suspicious ads

Despite the ads being delivered by Google, you shouldn’t trust them. Allsearchsite.com advertises browser hijackers like Funpopulargames and ad arbitrage sites like Zapmeta. They aren’t malicious but they are still harmful.

Worse, the ads would often use misleading text. For example, I would search for “Word” and get an ad saying:

Install Download Word – Download Now For Free

And where does it lead? To Mysocialshortcut.com, a new tab hijacker. Nothing to do with installing or downloading the Word program. At best, that’s annoying.

In addition, Allsearchsite.com asks visitors to allow its notifications. I can’t imagine what it needs them for. Except that notifications are often abused to send ads to people’s browsers.

How to stop Allsearchsite.com redirects

If you only discovered Allsearchsite.com but it never bothers you, then there’s nothing to worry about. Just be careful of the ads displayed by Allsearchsite.com.

However, if you find yourself on Allsearchsite.com regularly and you aren’t visiting it intentionally, there may be an adware infection (such as a bad browser add-on) causing this. You should check the programs that you installed recently and review the extensions that you’ve added.

Review them manually. Scan your computer with an anti-malware tool, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or whatever tool you use to check for potentially unwanted programs. If you find something suspicious, remove it.

Check your notification settings and block notifications from unwanted sites.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Allsearchsite.com from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Allsearchsite.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Allsearchsite.com or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Allsearchsite.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Allsearchsite.com from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Allsearchsite.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Allsearchsite.com or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Allsearchsite.com from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Allsearchsite.com related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Allsearchsite.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.