Sports Search for Chrome™ - How to remove

Sports Search for Chrome™ is a browser extension that promises to improve your search results for sports terms. It doesn’t really, all the work is done by web search engines while Sports Search for Chrome™ just collects ad revenue that it gets from redirecting your searches. Sports Search for Chrome™ isn’t harmful, but it’s also not helpful at all.

Sports Search for Chrome™ in short:

Type of threat	Potentially unwanted program.
How Sports Search for Chrome™ affects the browser	Sports Search for Chrome™ changes the default search engine to My-sports-search.com, which uses Yahoo.com, it makes query suggestions when it detects that you search for sports terms.
Problems and issues	Sports Search for Chrome™ limits the search engines that you can use to only three (Google, Bing, Yahoo), sports results are displayed in Yahoo, often with additional ads.
How to remove Sports Search for Chrome™	Uninstall Sports Search for Chrome™ manually, check your device for suspicious items with an anti-malware scanner (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Sports Search for Chrome™

Sports search extension

Sports Search for Chrome™ is a free Chrome browser extension that promises to help users search for info about their favorite sports teams. It does this by recognizing sports terms in your search queries and suggesting relevant terms for you to search for.

But, in my experience, Sports Search for Chrome™ does very little. It doesn’t add features on top of what search engines already do and, if anything, it limits your search engine choices.

When Sports Search for Chrome™ is installed, it changes your default search engine to My-sports-search.com, which opens Yahoo.com. When you type in a search query to your address bar, Sports Search for Chrome™ recognizes some terms and makes suggestions (usually to add the word “scores” to the query). When you choose Sports Search for Chrome™’s suggestion, it loads search results by Yahoo.

Search engine replacer

Sports Search for Chrome™ is very honest about how it makes money (by redirecting its users to Yahoo), which is great. There are too many browser extensions that make money the same way but are dishonest with their users.

But what does Sports Search for Chrome™ really do in exchange for that money?

• It reads your search queries and looks for sports terms.
• It adds “scores” as a suggestion for completing search queries.
• If you choose an entry completed by Sports Search for Chrome™, then it has Yahoo display the search results.
• Yahoo displays quick info on many sports teams, including the results of the latest matches.

But, Yahoo does that with or without the “scores” bit. And so does Google and Bing, other two big search engines. You could perform the same search without Sports Search for Chrome™ installed and you would get the same result.

It seems like the only use for Sports Search for Chrome™ is redirecting to Yahoo when you search for sports teams. That would make sense if you used Ecosia or DuckDuckGo, smaller engines that don’t display quick team info. But when Sports Search for Chrome™ is installed, it doesn’t allow for those search engines to be used. It only allows Google, Bing, or Yahoo. And for sports terms, only Yahoo.

It just doesn’t make sense to use Sports Search for Chrome™. It doesn’t add anything, it takes choices away and then shows more ads.

Reminds me of Web Protection for Chrome™, that was another browser extension that offered features that were already present in search engines.

How to remove Sports Search for Chrome™

The good news is that Sports Search for Chrome™ is not malicious, even though it’s not useful at all. It’s advisable to uninstall it, as each new browser extension, even if not malicious, is still a privacy and security risk. Though, if you like Sports Search for Chrome™, don’t worry, you can keep using it and feel safe. Probably.

If you decide to remove Sports Search for Chrome™, it’s very simple. You can find Sports Search for Chrome™ in the extension menu in the upper right corner of your browser. Click the extension button, then the three-dot menu next to Sports Search for Chrome™, then Remove. Or find extension sin the settings of your browser as described in the instructions below.

You can also scan your computer with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another scanner that you trust and that can detect potentially unwanted programs. Even though Sports Search for Chrome™ is a very mild threat, it still behaves like a browser hijacker. So, there might be a reason to check your computer for adware and for other hijackers, especially if you didn’t install Sports Search for Chrome™ intentionally.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove extensions manually

TopHow To remove Sports Search for Chrome™ from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Sports Search for Chrome™, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser 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 Sports Search for Chrome™ from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Sports Search for Chrome™, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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.