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Setting Google as Default Search Provider (Group Policy)
WC_KStill Yep, the policies respond to chromium.
If I'm reading your GPO correctly, you're not following the example value for the default search engine:
You don't have the actual URL, just the search value.
Start by pulling out the Image Search GPO components, and the 'Suggested Search' drop the number of search components to this and then try it again.
Originally I had
{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}Which is what Microsoft states to use:
I've been searching around the net and using different suggestions including yours but none work.
As you can see here (this is something I just now noticed) it shows both search options in the dropdown. I manually selected Google and now it finally defaults to Google... weird
- However, upon closing the browser and reopening. It goers back to Bing as default until I select Google again... very frustrating
WC_KStill So, it is quite likely that Edge is doing this slightly differently:
In the 'Default Search providers' list they are listing a keyword for the search provider:
In addition to the actual code line for the search:
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}I am not sure how or why but after switching the GPO's from Computer to User policies this started working...
Here is what I am using
The exact values copy/paste from Microsoft
Look at the example text I hilighted in the bottom. (right under your hilight)