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Add a search engine permission: ask when a site wants to add a search engine (e.g., block them all)
Hey there ikjadoon! This is a feature of the browser itself, and not a site permission. When you use a site's search field, it will be added as a potential search engine at edge://settings/searchEngines
The search you're describing is also a default setup/feature when adding these search engines. You can modify those search terms at edge://settings/searchEngines (the keyword column), you can omit the .com as you've mentioned in your post, or you can start your search with your preferred search engine, hit tab, and then use the full search term. For instance "bing" (Tab) "wirecutter.com union news" (Enter)
If you'd like to see an option to disable adding new search engines added, similar to what you've got described here, you can submit it to our Feedback portal as well!
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- Thank you for the update, Alexandra. That's a great explanation; thank you for clarifying it.
Yes: unfortunately, sometimes I am looking for information referring to the site itself rather than the institution, say "Github.com bugs". It's not frequently, but it's happened enough where I've twice needed to remove all the extraneous search engines, but of course, they keep repopulating once I ever use the search engine on that site.
I'll add this to the Feedback portal!
