diff --git a/error.html b/error.html
index 350f0625..914a19c2 100644
--- a/error.html
+++ b/error.html
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
                background: var(--panel); border: 1px solid var(--line); color: var(--acid);
                font-family: ui-monospace, monospace; font-size: 12.5px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; }
   .suggest a:hover { border-color: rgb(from var(--acid) r g b / .55); filter: brightness(1.05); }
+  .suggest a.search { font-family: inherit; color: var(--ink); }
+  .suggest a.search:hover { color: var(--acid); }
   .actions { display: flex; gap: 8px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-top: 1.3rem; }
   .btn { font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; padding: 9px 16px; border-radius: 9px;
          border: 1px solid var(--line); background: var(--panel2); color: var(--ink);
@@ -270,13 +272,16 @@
     actionsBox.appendChild(b);
   }
 
-  // "Did you mean" — two sources, merged into one row:
+  // "Did you mean" — two sources, merged into one row, plus a search chip:
   //   • BCNR warm shared index (Levenshtein ≤ 2, same TLD) — for a BCDN name
   //     typo like "games.x" → "game.x". Local index; works offline.
   //   • ICANN alternative-TLD swaps + history base-name matches — a DNS
   //     failure on my.mynymbox.com surfaces my.mynymbox.io, .net, .org, …,
   //     and any related host the user has visited. Local too.
-  // Clicking a suggestion retries at that host, preserving the original path.
+  //   • A trailing "Search '<host>'" chip that defers to the default
+  //     search engine when none of the URL alternatives looks right.
+  // Clicking a URL chip retries at that host (keeps the original path);
+  // clicking the search chip opens a search for the host text.
   if ((kind === "name-not-registered" || kind === "name-unreachable") && host) {
     let origPath = "/";
     try { const u = new URL(url); origPath = u.pathname + u.search + u.hash; } catch {}
@@ -292,7 +297,6 @@
         seen.add(name); matches.push(name);
         if (matches.length >= 4) break;
       }
-      if (!matches.length) return;
       const row = $("suggestRow");
       for (const name of matches) {
         const a = el("a", null, name);
@@ -303,6 +307,23 @@
         });
         row.appendChild(a);
       }
+      // Search chip. Shown whenever we have a host, even when no URL match
+      // surfaced — "search for it on your default engine" is the universal
+      // fallback for a DNS miss.
+      const s = el("a", "search", "🔎 Search '" + host + "'");
+      s.href = "#";
+      s.title = "Open your default search engine with this as the query";
+      s.addEventListener("click", (ev) => {
+        ev.preventDefault();
+        window.errorpage.searchFor(host);
+      });
+      row.appendChild(s);
+      // Replace the row's "Did you mean" label with a softer one when the
+      // only chip is the search fallback — nothing to actually suggest.
+      if (!matches.length) {
+        const lbl = $("suggest").querySelector(".lbl");
+        if (lbl) lbl.textContent = "Not sure what you were after?";
+      }
       $("suggest").hidden = false;
     }).catch(() => {});
   }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2ef56bf1..43458281 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "theseus-navigator",
-  "version": "0.3.122",
+  "version": "0.3.123",
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
   "description": "Theseus Navigator — a browser that follows the thread. By Silent Mode, a Deviant project.",
   "author": "Silent Mode",