diff --git a/srcpkgs/google-chrome/update b/srcpkgs/google-chrome/update
index 0074c4f3a66..5b8da607734 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/google-chrome/update
+++ b/srcpkgs/google-chrome/update
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
-# This is the only site I've reliably found the version number on
-site=https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-version/chrome
-pattern="\K\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+(?=<\/h2>)"
+# This site is an official source of version numbers, but it is not
+# obviously associated as such.  We save bytes here and request the
+# CSV, and then only the row containing the stable version number for
+# the Linux desktop build.  As a result the regex can be pretty simple
+# to just grab the version number out of the correct column.
+site="https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all?os=linux&channel=stable"
+pattern="stable,\K[\d.]+(?=,)"