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What it is

Open the Command Palette (Win + Alt + Space), start typing, and Universal Search Suggestions reacts the way a browser would:

• live autocomplete from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yahoo, Ecosia, Qwant, Swisscows
• inline answers for math, weather, currencies, definitions, sports scores, sunrise / sunset, translations, local time
• your own bookmarks and history from Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Firefox
• a rich details panel with a Wikipedia summary and a streamed AI answer
• direct URL detection (github.com/user/repo → opens straight to the page)

Pick a result, hit Enter, and it opens in your browser. That's it.

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Install

Requires Windows 11 with PowerToys 0.95+ and the Command Palette module enabled.

From the Command Palette gallery (recommended)

In the Command Palette, run Install command palette extension, then pick Universal Search Suggestions.

From the Microsoft Store

Single click install with automatic updates:

From WinGet

winget install Fefedu973.UniversalSearchSuggestions

Same package as the Microsoft Store, installed from the command line. WinGet handles updates automatically.

From a GitHub release

1. Open the latest release.
2. Download the .msix matching your CPU — _x64.msix for Intel/AMD, _arm64.msix for ARM.
3. Double-click it and choose Install.
4. Open the Command Palette — the new page is loaded automatically.

From source

git clone https://github.com/Fefedu973/UniversalSearchSuggestions
cd UniversalSearchSuggestions
.\scripts\dev-deploy.ps1 -Configuration Release -Platform x64

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What you get

Search suggestions from every major engine

Source	Notes
Google	The same fast autocomplete used by Chrome's omnibox
Google rich	Adds descriptions and thumbnails (sports, finance, dictionary…) when available
Google answers	Calculator, weather, currency conversion, dictionary, sunrise/sunset, translation, local time, sports, finance — shown inline, no extra click
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yahoo, Ecosia, Qwant, Swisscows	All optional, all free, all using the same public autocomplete endpoints their own websites use
Direct URL detection	Type youtube.com/watch?v=… and it opens directly — no detour through search

Google is on by default. Anything else is one toggle away.

Live autocomplete as you type.	Type a URL — it opens straight to the page.

Inline answers like Chrome's omnibox

Math, currency, units, definitions, translations, stock quotes, general knowledge — answered inline, no extra click.

Calculator	Currency	Units
Dictionary	Translation	Stock quotes
General knowledge — facts, sport scores, sunrise/sunset, local time, and more.

Your local bookmarks and history

Pick one browser profile (Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Firefox) and Universal Search will quietly index its bookmarks and history, ready to be matched as you type. Everything stays on your machine.

You can use Raycast-style operators in the search box:

gh -clone           match "gh", exclude "clone"
"react hooks"       exact phrase
\-deprecated        treat the dash as literal

A details panel that helps you decide

Select a suggestion and the right side shows what the result is about — without opening it:

• Web summary from DuckDuckGo Instant Answer or Wikipedia, with a thumbnail
• AI answer streamed live in Markdown, in your language
• Or connect a SERP API ato get better results (coming soon)

The default AI runs on a free, no-account, anonymous endpoint (OVH's hosted Llama 3.1). Bring your own API key to point it at OpenAI, Groq, OpenRouter, Together, Mistral, Azure OpenAI — or any OpenAI-compatible service.

Web summary from Wikipedia / DuckDuckGo with thumbnail.	AI answer streamed live in your language.

Open it the way you want

Every suggestion has a context menu with:

• Open in your default browser or any installed one (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, custom path)
• Open in a specific browser profile
• Open in Incognito / InPrivate / private mode
• Copy URL

A useful empty state

Before you've typed anything, the page can show:

• your recent searches (stored locally)
• the day's trending Google suggestions
• both, blended

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Settings

Universal Search ships with sensible defaults — installing it and starting to type is enough. Everything below can be tuned later from the extension's settings page.

Setting	Default
Primary search engine	Google
Browser	System default
Suggestion language	Auto-detected from Windows
Google autocomplete + rich + answers	On
Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, Qwant, Swisscows	Off
Bookmarks + history	On (from your default browser)
Details panel	On
Web summary (Wikipedia + DuckDuckGo)	On
AI answer in details	On — anonymous OVH Llama 3.1 8B
Empty page content	Recent searches + Google suggestions
Site favicons	On
Max suggestions per source	10
Max local results	12
Max total results	40
Network debounce	110 ms

Use your own AI provider

Paste a different endpoint and key into the AI settings and you're done:

Provider	Endpoint	Suggested model
OpenAI	https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions	gpt-4o-mini
Groq	https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions	llama-3.1-8b-instant
OpenRouter	https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions	meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct
Together AI	https://api.together.xyz/v1/chat/completions	meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo
Mistral	https://api.mistral.ai/v1/chat/completions	mistral-small-latest
OVH (default, no key)	https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1/chat/completions	Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Leave the API key empty and you fall back to the anonymous OVH endpoint — free, rate-limited, no signup.

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FAQ

Is anything sent to a server?

The autocomplete sources you turn on receive your typed query the same way they would in a browser address bar. Bookmarks and history never leave your computer. The AI answer (if enabled) goes to the endpoint configured in settings — by default, OVH's anonymous Llama 3.1 endpoint. You can disable it, change the endpoint, or add your own API key at any time.

Will it slow the Command Palette down?

No. The "Search…" row appears the moment you type — that one is local. Network sources are debounced (110 ms by default) and cancelled on every keystroke. The details panel loads asynchronously and never blocks the list. Wikipedia and DuckDuckGo thumbnails are cached on disk, so re-selecting a result is instant.

Why are there several "Google" toggles?

Google exposes a few different autocomplete feeds and each adds something different:

• Google autocomplete is the regular suggestion list.
• Google rich adds descriptions, headings, and thumbnails (definitions, sport scores, stocks, etc.).
• Google answers adds inline calculator, weather, currency, dictionary, time and translation results — the things you see in Chrome's omnibox.
• Google Toolbar XML is the legacy 2008-era feed, off by default. Turn it on only if the modern endpoints don't work on your network.

In normal use, the three default-on Google sources together give you the full Chrome address-bar feel.

Where are bookmarks and history read from?

From the browser profile you picked in Bookmarks/history browser. Chromium browsers expose them through a Bookmarks JSON file and a History SQLite database; Firefox uses places.sqlite. Universal Search reads them on demand into memory and matches them locally — no telemetry, no sync, no network call. The local cache lives at %LOCALAPPDATA%\UniversalSearchSuggestions\.

Why don't I see my Google search history before I type?

Google ties personalized "recent searches" to your signed-in browser session via cookies. A standalone process can't reuse that session, so Universal Search keeps its own local list of recent queries instead. You can also display Google's anonymous trending suggestions, or both.

How do I clear the cache?

Open the Command Palette, find the Universal Search top-level command, press the right arrow to open its context menu, and pick Reset Universal Search cache. This clears favicons, thumbnails, AI responses, and recent searches.

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Contribute

Issues, ideas, and pull requests are very welcome.

• Add a new search source in UniversalSearchSuggestions.Core/Search/Providers/ and a unit test next to it.
• Add or update translations in Strings.resx (English) and Strings.fr.resx (French) — please keep both in sync.
• Run dotnet format before committing.

Build and test

.\scripts\build.ps1        # build all projects
.\scripts\test.ps1         # run the xUnit suite
.\scripts\dev-deploy.ps1   # register the MSIX and reload Command Palette

Stack: .NET 9 / C# 13, WindowsAppSDK 1.6, Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions 0.9, xUnit 2.9.

Project layout

Project	Role
UniversalSearchSuggestions.Core	Pure .NET library: providers, parsers, URL heuristics, bookmark/history readers, image cache, localization. Fully unit-tested.
UniversalSearchSuggestions	The Command Palette extension itself: settings UI, list rendering, details panel, browser launching.
UniversalSearchSuggestions.Tests	xUnit tests for the parsing and ranking logic.

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License

MIT — use it anywhere, just keep the credit.

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