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Is 'search and site suggestion' working properly?
Hi HotCakeX and Elliot_Kirk
I found the cause of the problem: it was more or less my fault, but not entirely, lol
Do you still remember a bug that happened a few weeks ago when the Google search engine stopped working on Edge-Chromium? (Even with Google's search engine being selected, Bing's search engine was used.)Well, when that bug happened I got around the problem by manually adding a search engine to Google with the following URL:
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:instantExtendedEnabledParameter}ie={inputEncoding}
The bug was fixed, but I forgot to check the search engines. I took a look now and I saw that besides that search engine that I had created for Google, now there was the "default" Google search engine with this URL:
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}
Note that the URLs are not exactly the same. I just had to make this last URL the default search engine again and now everything is working as it should.
Now it's working in Edge-Chromium:
For me it's google specifically, that's not working with suggestions, even if I paste https://google.com/search?q=%s. I am running 79.0.309.68 (Official build).
In 80.0.361.33 (Official build) beta it's working fine, though.
What helped me [partially] is Ryan Shillington from https://superuser.com/questions/280694/how-can-i-share-my-google-chrome-search-engine-entries . I had Edge Beta as well, so I extracted the search engines from "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Web Data" and "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\Default\Web Data" and compared them. Difference was mainly with IDs. So I've imported the entries from Beta. Surprisingly there were no duplicate entries after that except for... Google. There were 2 entries now with one having keyword "g_", which I did not add myself. And with it search suggestions worked. I've extracted keywords again and my "imported" entry and this new one did not differ in terms of search URL, but they had a lot of difference in other parameters. In the end I simply removed the non-working entry and edited keyword for the working one and made it default.
Now, it's a bit unclear to me why "import" worked this way, but I know what MS can do to make this a bit more transparent:
1. Add button to reset (or rather restore) Search Engines, that are created after "pure" installation of the browser.
2. Allow synchronization of them for the profile, similar to favorites.