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Juergen_Soltau
Iron Contributor
Apr 09, 2019

unable to change search engine for the address-bar

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 del...
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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

 

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jessemMSFT
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May 02, 2019

Andypseymour , Thank you for this. With this setting, are you still getting Bing as your address bar search engine?

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    Andypseymour
    Brass Contributor
    May 06, 2019

     

    jessemMSFT wrote:

    Andypseymour , Thank you for this. With this setting, are you still getting Bing as your address bar search engine?

    jessemMSFT no, google is search engine from address bar. 

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      zswobbie1234
      Copper Contributor
      May 15, 2019

      This is how I set Google:

      {google:baseURL}search?q=%s

       

      Thats a copy from the 3rd row, the URL setting

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