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How To Make Google Your Default Search Engine In Edge

Last Updated on November 22, 2016 by admin 3 Comments

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Unlike previous Windows versions, Windows 10 ships with two web browsers: Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. While everyone is familiar with Internet Explorer, Edge is a new web browser from Microsoft with some cool features.

Default search engine in Microsoft Edge

In Windows 10, Edge is the default browser, and Bing is the default search engine in Edge browser. The Bing search engine has evolved over the years but there are many uses who still feel that the big Google search engine is better than Bing.

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge

In one of our previous articles titled how to change the default search engine in Microsoft Edge browser, we showed how to change the default search in Edge, but, until today, it was impossible to set Google default search in Edge as Google search didn’t support OpenSearch 1.1.

Today, Google announced that it has started rolling out OpenSearch 1.1 support for Microsoft Edge browser. Depending on your region, you may be able to set Google as the default search engine in Edge browser now.

Set Google as the default search engine in Edge in Windows 10

Here is how to make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge.

Step 1: Launch Edge browser and open Google search engine in the browser.

Step 2: When you’re on the Google search page, click the star button (see picture) to add it to Favorites (bookmarks).

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step1

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step2

Step 3: Click More actions (see picture) and then click Settings.

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step3

Step 4: Scroll down, under Advanced settings, click View advanced settings.

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step4

Step 5: Scroll down to see Search in the address bar with section. Click the drop-down box, and then click Add new.

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step5

Step 6: Google search entry should now appear under Choose one. Select Google search and then click Add as default button to make Google search default in Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10.

Make Google default search engine in Microsoft Edge step6

Note that the update is rolling out. If you’re unable to make Google as default search engine in Edge right now, please try again after some time.

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Comments

  1. john says

    September 9, 2019 at 12:18 am

    Hi I’m trying to change my default browser on my new pc and I am following the steps but when I get to advanced settings the address bar thing isn’t there. Please help. Thank you.

  2. admin says

    July 16, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    Mike, glad to know that it works on the RTM branch build as well.

  3. MikeFromMarkham says

    July 16, 2015 at 6:29 am

    Thanks for this… I much prefer Google search to Bing and am happy to report that your tip works perfectly with Windows 10 build 10240 too!

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