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Juergen_Soltau
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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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May 02, 2019

NicolSD 

 

Thanks for the reply.  I deleted my Google entry, went to Google.com, and then went back to the settings, but there was no Google entry.  Was this supposed to be automatically added back?  If so it didn't happen for me.

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jessemMSFT
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May 02, 2019

 

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NicolSD 

 

Thanks for the reply.  I deleted my Google entry, went to Google.com, and then went back to the settings, but there was no Google entry.  Was this supposed to be automatically added back?  If so it didn't happen for me.

Deleted , If a search engine is removed, you will need to reset settings in order to get it back. I also think there should be an easier way and will file an issue on this.

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    May 02, 2019

    jessemMSFT 

     

    Yes, I agree it is way too difficult to get this to work.  It really needs to be fixed by the developers.  As Google is probably the world's most used search engine, it should just work out of the box if selected in the options.  Thanks for your help.