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MusixLib Search Extension

Posted: February 19, 2018

The MusixLib Search Extension, offered by Musixlib.com, is a browser add-on for Google Chrome whose purpose is to provide users with access to music-streaming services. This might sound useful, but the truth is that MusixLib Search Extension is not as useful as its description claims it to be. All this add-on does is to refer users to 3rd-party music streaming services like Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, and others. This can't be considered as a useful feature since all of these services can be accessed without installing MusixLib Search Extension.

In addition to lacking any useful features, the MusixLib Search Extension also might end up bothering users by tampering with the Google Chrome's settings. This add-on can't be installed without permitting it to replace the Chrome's default search aggregator with Music.searchalgo.com. While this action is not threatening, it might have an adverse impact on the quality of the search results the users receive, since Searchalgo.com is not as credible and well-developed as Google, Bing, Yahoo, or other reputable search engines.

The publisher of the MusixLib Search Extension appears to have uploaded several different versions of the add-on, which appear to be only using slightly modified names – Search by MusixLib, MusixLib Multi Search and MusixLib Start. If you have either one of these add-ons installed and you do not wish to continue using them, then we suggest that you use a suitable PC security tool to dispose of the Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) safely.

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