Searchfast.ru

The site Searchfast.ru serves to promote the 'SearchFast' browser extension, which is supposed to offer Web surfers a simple search service that can help with finding text, images, music and video online. The 'SearchFast' browser extension by Searchfast.ru appears to be tailored towards Russian speakers as it supports a version in Russian only. Additionally, The 'SearchFast' browser extension can be installed on browsers like Google Chrome, Yandex Browser and SRWAre Iron only, which are based on the Chromium project. The 'SearchFast' extension is designed to handle search request made via the Omnibox and redirects users to go.mail.ru. When you input keywords in the Omnibox and hit enter, your submission is sent to the servers at Searchfast.ru and you are provided with results at go.mail.ru. The site go.mail.ru is something like Russia's alternative to Gmail; it has a dedicated search service only.

The 'SearchFast' software by Searchfast.ru is perceived as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that offers access to search results via go.mail.ru. Users are not required to pay for 'SearchFast' and services by Searchfast.ru. However, the extension may read information such as your browsing history, input to the Omnibox, and clicks on go.mail.ru to help advertisers generated related deals, offers and coupons. That allows the developers at Searchfast.ru claim ad revenue from mail.ru and keep the 'SearchFast' extension free of charge. You might want to know that the developers behind the Searchfast.ru browser extension might not provide updates and not provide contact details. The Searchfast.ru browser extension may be used to inject code into your data transmissions, and it appears that it is not using encrypted connections by default. PC users that like to keep their Internet browsing private might not appreciate the 'SearchFast' browser extension and like to have it removed.