Microsoft Edge
Keeping Bing as your default search engine provides an enhanced search experience in the new Microsoft Edge , including direct links to Windows 10 apps, relevant suggestions from your organization if you’re signed in with a work or school account, and instant answers to questions about Windows 10. However, you can change the default search engine in Microsoft Edge to any site that uses OpenSearch technology.
This is the recommended solution from the Microsoft Officials and is known to work for pretty much everyone who is having this problem. While using the Windows own browsers like Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer, use the InPrivate Window to open any Google related (or any other website that you were having trouble with) websites. The new Microsoft Edge Web browser features a nice start page by default that provides easy access to Bing search, user account settings, local weather, news, and more. But some users want to use a custom start page, such as Google, when they launch Edge. Here's how to set up a custom start page in Edge. Microsoft - the new soft, but sturdy version - intimated that apps from Google's Chrome Web store mess up Edge's inner workings. But then Redmond realized it didn't have so many fine Edge. The new Chromium-based version of Microsoft's Edge browser adds a few tricks, from dropping EdgeHTML in favor of Chromium, making it feel more like Google Chrome, to supporting Chrome extensions. To use Google or another search engine as your default in Microsoft’s new Edge browser, click the menu and select “Settings.” Click the “Privacy and services” option under Settings in the left sidebar. Scroll down to the bottom of the right pane and look for the Services section. Click the “Address Bar” option under it.
In Microsoft Edge, perform a search in the address bar using the search engine you want to set as your default.
Select Settings and more > Settings .
Select Privacy and services.
Scroll all the way down to the Services sectionand select Address bar.
Choose your preferred search enginefrom the Search engine used in the address bar menu.
To add a different search engine, perform a search in the address bar using that search engine (or a website that supports search, like a wiki site). Then go to Settings and more > Settings > Privacy and services > Address bar. The engine or website you used to search will now appear in the list of options you can select.
Note: This topic is for the new Microsoft Edge . Get help for the legacy version of Microsoft Edge.
Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome and select the three, vertical dots next to the profile picture, then select Settings.
Scroll down to the Search engine section, then choose a different option in the dropdown under Search engine used in the address bar.
To add, edit, or remove other search engines from the list, select the Manage search engines arrow, below the default search engine list.
To add a new search engine: Select the Add button and fill out the fields for Search engine, Keyword, and URL with %s in place of query.
To add a search engine to the default list: Under Other search engines, select the three dots next to the one you want to add, then select Make default.
To edit or remove a search engine: Select the three dots next to the one you want to edit or remove, then select Edit or Remove from list. Note: You can't remove Google (Default) from the list.
Firefox
Open Firefox and select the three, vertical lines next to the profile picture, then select Options.
Select Search , then choose a different option in the dropdown under Default Search Engine.
To add a new search engine, select Find more search engines at the bottom of the Search page. Search for the search engine or find it in the list, select the option, then select Add to Firefox.
To remove a search engine, select the one you want to remove in the list under One-Click Search Engines, then select the Remove button.
Safari
Open Safari, then go to Safari menu > Preferences.
Once the Preferences window opens, select the dropdown menu next to Default search engine, and select the one you want to make your default.
At first glance, getting Microsoft Edge Google search functionality may seem just a little tricky to accomplish. Indeed, when Microsoft released Windows 10 in July 2015, they also introduced Microsoft Edge as the new browser and successor for Internet Explorer.
Update: In January 2020, Microsoft launched a new Microsoft Edge, which has a slightly different approach for setting the default search engine. Click here to read how to change the new Microsoft Edge search engine.
What many people don’t realize is that Internet Explorer is also still available on Windows 10, but Microsoft has put it in a less prominent spot so that it’s easy to miss.
The image below shows a standard Windows 10 start menu after a clean installation, illustrating the prominent presence of Microsoft Edge with no visible hints of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer *is* present on the system, but you have to dig a bit deeper in order to find it.
What’s more, both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer come with Bing search functionality by default, rather than Google search.
While we can’t blame Microsoft for trying to get people to use their own search engine instead of Google :-)
You, on the other hand, may have good reasons to change the search behavior of Microsoft Edge and switch over to Google as your default search engine. You certainly do have the liberty to change your browser’s search behavior if you wanted to.
In fact, changing the Microsoft Edge search behavior to use Google as default search engine and use Google search suggestions is one of the top questions on many computer forums today.
Microsoft Edge Google Search Behavior
In order to set Microsoft Edge Google search behavior and use Google search suggestions, you simply launch Microsoft Edge from your Windows 10 task bar, like illustrated in the image below.
Typically, Microsoft Edge will show you a screen where it says “Where to next”, allowing you to enter a web url directly or a search query to perform your internet search. If you enter a search text, you will get a Bing search results page, not a Google page.
In order to enable Microsoft Edge Google search behavior, you first have to go to Google’s web url. To do this, simply enter www.google.com (without the quotes) in the field below “Where to next” in your Microsoft Edge browser and press ENTER or click the arrow.
This will take you to Google’s home page, with its familiar look:
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The next step to change Microsoft Edge’s search behavior, click the three dots in the top right corner of the browser and click “Settings”, like illustrated below.
Then, in the settings menu, scroll down to the “Advanced settings” section and click “View advanced settings”.
In the advanced settings menu, again, scroll down a bit until you get to the settings that says “Search in the address bar with” (see image below).
Click the drop down arrow and select “Add new”.
Your Edge browser will now show you the Microsoft Edge Google search provider options that you can select, which will look a lot like the image below. Select Google.com as your default search provider and click “Add as default”.
Microsoft Edge Google Search
This action will take you back to the advanced settings menu. You can close this menu by hitting the ESCAPE key on your keyboard or by clicking anywhere outside the menu.
From now on, you will notice that Microsoft Edge will default to Google search results and Google search suggestions whenever you type something in the “Where to next” field.
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