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1. #HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
3. #HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 DRIVERS#
4. #HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#
5. #HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 FREE#

#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 FREE#

Please feel free to reply in case you face any other issues with Windows in future.Īfter posting my inquiry, I found out about the Chrome extension Chrometana which redirects Cortana queries from Bing to Google.

#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#

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#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 DRIVERS#

Important: Using Third Party Software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Google Chrome (after setting it as default browser) that can serve the purpose. If you would like to change it to google, you may check with Google support for any extension that be can be used with However, the default search engine for Cortana currently is Bing. I understand that you would like Google as search engine for Cortana. Some extensions that can do this for you are Bing2Google and Chrometana, but there will probably be many more in the upcoming future.Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#

Then, you’ll be able to download and install third person extensions that force Bing searches to be redirected to another search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. What you need to do is to download and install Chrome, and set it as your default browser. You could, however, bypass Bing, but the process is a little bit trickier. Hopefully, more providers will offer this kind of feature soon, but until they do, you will have to use another search engine on Edge.Īs for Cortana, the OS’ personal assistant feature, which also uses Bing by default, unfortunately there is no official method of replacing it with any other search engine at the moment. If you have already navigated to your preferred search engine’s homepage and it is still missing, then it probably doesn’t support OpenSearch yet, which can be an issue. Edge is able to detect whether a page you visit features the ‘OpenSearch’ standard, and automatically adds it to this list.

This probably means that you haven't visited the search engine’s homepage yet. However, sometimes your preferred search engine might not appear on this list. That’s all it takes to configure Edge, so that it will always use your preferred search engine instead of the default, Bing! You will notice that there is a drop-down menu, which is (probably) currently set to ‘Bing ( When clicked, it will give you the option to ‘add new’, which brings up another tab, with a few more search engine options to choose from.įinally, you need to select your preferred search provider from the search providers list, and then click on ‘add as default’. On the ‘Advanced Settings’ tab, you will need to scroll down until you reach the option that’s labeled ‘Search in the address bar with’.

You will navigate towards the bottom of the tab, and click on the ‘View Advanced Settings’ button, in order to take a look under Edge’s hood. On the ‘Settings’ tab, you will notice there are various sections. Is there any way to change Edge’s default search engine, or will you go back to using Chrome, Firefox or even Internet Explorer? Well, fortunately, there is, and the process of changing it to whatever you want is not complicated at all.įirst of all, assuming you have already opened Edge, you need to point your mouse towards those 3 little dots on the top right of the browser’s window, and click, so that you can access the drop-down menu.Īfterwards, you need to click on the bottom of the list, where it says ‘Settings’, so that you can check how Edge is set up on your machine. It’s only expected that they’d try to push their own product, right? However, you might still prefer working with Google, or any other search engine you have gotten used to in the past years. Nope, this is Bing! Since Microsoft owns Bing, it is set up as the default search engine for both Edge and Cortana. Something is wrong, these aren’t your usual search engine results… You type a keyword in the search bar, and you can’t quite believe how fast your results appear, until you realise something seems a bit off. You have recently upgraded to Windows 10, and are eager to try the new, super-fast browser that comes with the new OS, so you click on Microsoft Edge’s awesome icon and excitedly brace yourself for the best surfing experience currently available.

#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#

How to make Google the default search engine on Microsoft Edge If any more have specific questions like you asked this, let me know and I will resolve for you. This is very different from what I did but it also works and is much simpler.