I tried to change the standard search engine of the address-bar to Google, but failed:Edge uses always Bing, despite 'Google' is the search engine marked as default in the settings! Even when I delete Bing, Bing is used nevertheless!Resetting all settings to default also had no result. Curious is, that after resetting to default, 'Google' remains a defined search-engine!Also strange: everything works OK on my Windows 10 Pro, the error exists on my Windows 10 Home system.

NicolSD I just was able to make it work. I had added another entry to the list called TEST that used Google search. I deleted the entry called Google, but forgot to delete the entry called TEST. I deleted that and then tried your method and it worked! I did have to go to google.com and enter a search, but when I did it added Google to the list of entries. I set it as the default address search engine and it seems to be working fine. Thanks!

NicolSD No time wasted, it was worth trying. Thanks for the help.

jessemMSFT I just tested a copy of Canary (no plugins) on my Surface Pro. It had no difficulty adding Ask to my list of search engines. All I had to do was go to the Web site. No inquiry needed.

Sorry, that was my fault - everything works OK! I should always wear my eye-classes!

Juergen_Soltau Looks like you got this to work. I can't. I added Google as a search engine and set it as the search engine for the address bar. Now when I type something on the address bar and hit enter, nothing happens. If I set it back to Bing and type something and hit enter it takes me to Bing search. How did you make it work with Google? Thanks,Bill

unable to change search engine for the address-bar

42 Replies

jessemMSFT
Microsoft
May 02, 2019
Hi, I am a dev on Edge and I'm gathering more information about this issue.

If you see this, do you mind posting what both edge://settings/search and edge://settings/searchEngines say?

One suspicion we have is that this has to do with the residing country. If you can relay this information as well, that would be helpful.

Thanks so much for helping.
- Jonathan Lee
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 13, 2019
  jessemMSFT I'm seeing a similar issue -- today address bar searches with Google are redirecting to Bing (eg. see the auto-generated icon). After testing, it seems the {google:baseURL} variable is getting replaced with "https://www.bing.com/".
  - jessemMSFT
    Microsoft
    Aug 13, 2019
    Jonathan Lee
    
    Thank you! We're on top of it and should be fixed in today or tomorrow's build.
- Andypseymour
  Brass Contributor
  May 02, 2019
  
  jessemMSFT wrote:
  Hi, I am a dev on Edge and I'm gathering more information about this issue.
  
  If you see this, do you mind posting what both edge://settings/search and edge://settings/searchEngines say?
  
  One suspicion we have is that this has to do with the residing country. If you can relay this information as well, that would be helpful.
  
  Thanks so much for helping.
  
  jessemMSFT requested qaddresses give as follows, and i am in the UK en-GB
  - jessemMSFT
    Microsoft
    May 02, 2019
    Andypseymour , Thank you for this. With this setting, are you still getting Bing as your address bar search engine?
Deleted
Apr 16, 2019
I stopped using google for search a long time ago I use bing on all my devices
- Henry-Williams1889
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 16, 2019
  Deleted Upload an image on Google Image search and then upload it on Bing Image search, then compare the results.
  
  Bing will give you completely irrelevant results, that look nothing like the image. In some cases it works fine, but on most cases it fails so badly. Google have done a fantastic job on their search. It will take quite a long time before Bing gets where Google search is.
  - Deleted
    Apr 16, 2019
    Henry-Williams1889
zswobbie1234
Copper Contributor
Apr 16, 2019
Im using https://www.google.co.za/search?source=hp&ei=RAevXJ-JJJLasAell7KQBw&q=%s&btnK=Google+Search&oq=reprosetup.zip&gs_l=psy-ab.3...3395.3395..4849...0.0..0.305.605.3-2......0....2j1..gws-wiz.....0.6XOMEKjHICw in the URL setting
- Deleted
  Apr 16, 2019
  zswobbie1234
  
  Thanks for the info. I had to tweak it a bit to get it to work for me, but I did get it to work. That is way too hard for the average user to figure out. They could have made it much easier. Chrome and Firefox both work much easier than this. Leave it to MS to make things more difficult than they need to be.
  
  Thanks
  Bill
Juergen_Soltau
Iron Contributor
Apr 09, 2019
Sorry, that was my fault - everything works OK! I should always wear my eye-classes!
- Elliot Kirk
  Silver Contributor
  Apr 16, 2019
  I am glad you were able to get this to work Juergen,
  - Deleted
    Apr 16, 2019
    worked a treatElliot Kirk
- Andypseymour
  Brass Contributor
  Apr 16, 2019
  Juergen_Soltau im with you on this, took me ages to find the setting. it does however seem to be staying now i have changed it.
- Deleted
  Apr 15, 2019
  Juergen_Soltau
  
  Looks like you got this to work. I can't. I added Google as a search engine and set it as the search engine for the address bar. Now when I type something on the address bar and hit enter, nothing happens. If I set it back to Bing and type something and hit enter it takes me to Bing search. How did you make it work with Google?
  
  Thanks,
  Bill
  - NicolSD
    Iron Contributor
    May 02, 2019
    Deleted Had you tried the following? Sometimes manual entries are a good door to typos. This did the trick for me when I was trying to use Duck Duck Go.
    
    1- Go to edge://settings/searchEngines
    2- Delete your Google entry
    3- Go to Google.com
    4- Return to edge://settings/searchEngines
    5- Make the new Google entry your default search engine
    6- Try doing a search using the address bar

Forum Discussion

unable to change search engine for the address-bar

42 Replies

Resources