The default search for Google Chrome is, naturally, the Google search engine. Everything is obvious: the developers decided to add their “brainchild” to Google Chrome. How to change this search engine in the browser, change its geolocation, as well as how to take advantage of its unique capabilities and install additional search engines, read in detail in this article.
So, how to set up a search bar: from simple to complex.
Nothing more than a field for entering a query in the legendary Google. Under its logo is the name of the country corresponding to the geographical area of the computer's IP address. If you use a proxy server, the country in which it is physically located (for example, Turkey) will appear in the picture, and in its native language. And if the IP is “open”, your country will be displayed. That is, when the browser starts, the user’s geolocation is determined automatically.
Look at the panel. Everything suits me? Search engine, its location? No problem - feel free to enter any query in Russian in the field above the visual bookmarks or in the address bar (the browser will quickly realize that you are not typing a URL, but are looking for something). By the way, the service is provided free of charge.
For example, you are somewhere abroad or using a proxy, and Chrome regularly gives you the geographical zone to which the IP belongs, for example, England. And you are fundamentally interested in extradition in Russia or Ukraine. What should I do? Let's create the appropriate settings:
1. Click the "Menu" button in the top right panel.
2. Select “Settings” from the list.
3. In the “Open at startup” block, enable the “Specified pages” button.
4. On the same page, click “Add”.
6. Click OK.
7. Restart Chrome and you will see the search engine in the desired location.
If you like Google Chrome in all its “guises”, but want a different search engine, you need to change certain options:
1. In the settings, in the “Search” block, click “Configure search engines.”
2. In the “Other search engines...” block, enter the details of the search engine you are interested in (for example, Yandex). Click "Done."
3. Restart.
4. Return to this panel. At the top of the window, hover over the search engine link. Click the “Set as Default” button that appears.
Now, when you enter a request, it will be automatically sent to the specified system - yandex.ru, mail.ru, etc.
Note. You can quickly switch search engines using the Search drop-down menu.
Well, this is also possible in Chrome. Follow the instructions:
1. Log in to your browser settings.
2. Click the mouse to make the “Specified pages...” setting active. Follow the "Add" link.
3. Add all the necessary systems (Mail, Yahoo!, etc.). Click OK.
4. They will open automatically.
Another option for running multiple search services is to fix tabs:
open the necessary resources;
Click on each tab and select the “Pin…” command in the context menu;
They will also open immediately upon startup.
Advice! You can also use universal search engines if you require alternative results for a query of interest.
This procedure is similar in principle to closing a window in Windows:
1. To remove a link, open Pages on Startup.
2. Hover over the URL and click the cross icon.
Similarly, deletion occurs in the “Search Engines” panel.
Google has many additional settings that speed up searches and increase their accuracy. Let's look at the basic solutions:
1. When you type a query, variants with additional words and phrases automatically appear at the bottom of the field. They clarify the query and free the user from having to type it in full.
Hints are selected by clicking the mouse. In Chrome, you can set a picture or photo in the search as a query. Right-click on it on the page and select “Find picture...” from the list of commands.
4. Use search add-ons. The entire list of commands is displayed on the page - http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html.
They perform specialized data searches based on specified conditions. For example, they find a request only in links, anchors, text, tab title, etc.
We wish you to quickly find all the necessary information using Chrome.
You can enter search queries directly into the address bar (omnibox). The default search engine is Google, but you can choose another if you wish.
Enter the URL of the search results page. Replace your search term with the character combination %s .
Here's how to determine the search results page URL:
Use a Chromebook at work or school? If the search engine is selected by the network administrator, you will not be able to change it. More details
Google Chrome allows you to Web search directly from the address bar at the top of the browser window (also called the "universal search box"). If you enter search terms here, it will automatically display search results from a search engine such as Google.
You can specify the search engine that the address bar will use by default.
Google Chrome's default address bar uses Google search to display search results, but you can use another search engine:
If the search engine you want is not listed, follow these steps to add it as a new search engine.
The Google Chrome browser automatically saves a list of search engines encountered while browsing. For example, if you visit the page https://www.youtube.com, the browser will automatically detect and add the YouTube search engine to the list of search engines that you can use. Therefore, you will be able to search YouTube directly from the address bar without even going to that site.
To manually add, edit or delete search engines in your browser, do the following:
Below are some tips on the information you need to provide for each search engine.
To find the corresponding web address, follow these steps:
- Open the search engine you want to add.
- Perform a search.
- Copy and paste the web address of the search results page into the URL field. Remember that the search results page URL is different from the website URL. For example, you access Google at http://www.google.com, but you need to add the URL of the search results page, for example, http://www.google.com/search?q=XYZ, if you searched for "xyz".
- Replace the search term in the URL with %s . For example, for the Google search engine, the final search engine URL would be http://www.google.com/search?q=%s . When you enter a search term in the address bar, %s will be automatically replaced with your search term.
Make sure you include %s in the URL. Otherwise you will not be able to configure this search engine as default search engine.
In this article we will talk about how to set Google as the default search engine in Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer is no longer the default web browser on the Windows operating system. With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced the Edge browser and made it the default web browser.
Although there is a new browser from Microsoft for Windows 10, Internet Explorer 11 is still included in Windows 10. Even though version 11 is the latest version of Internet Explorer, millions of PC users are still using it.
In IE 11, the Bing search engine is still the default search engine, but this is not surprising, since Microsoft rarely changes its traditions.
The Bing search engine has evolved over the years and it has a decent market share in many regions, but most users use Google when it comes to web search and want to make it the default search engine in Internet Explorer 11.
Changing the default internet search engine in Internet Explorer 11 is not a very easy task. There are no settings in the settings to set the default Google search engine.
Fortunately, Microsoft has provided add-on functionality in the Internet Explorer 11 web browser. So, below, you will learn how to set Google as the default search engine in IE 11.
Below are the corresponding instructions to set Google search engine as default on IE 11.
Figure 1. Click on Configure add-ons. 
Figure 2. Click on Search for additional toolbars and extensions... Important: If the Internet Explorer gallery page opens in a browser other than Internet Explorer, copy and paste the Internet Explorer gallery web page link in Internet Explorer to open the same web page in Internet Explorer. This is because you cannot install Internet Explorer extensions from other browsers. You can install IE extensions only if the Internet Explorer gallery page is open in Internet Explorer.
Figure 2. Find the Google Search Suggestions extension, and then click on the Add to Internet Explorer button. 
Figure 3. After the confirmation pop-up appears, click the Add button. 
Figure 5. How the Google Search Suggestions extension appears in search services. 
Figure 6. Right-click on the Google entry, and then select Default. To restore Bing as your default search engine again, select Bing in step 6 and then set it as "Default".
Now all modern browsers support entering search queries from the address bar. At the same time, most web browsers allow you to independently select the desired “search engine” from the list of available ones.
Google is the most popular search engine in the world, but not all browsers use it as their default query handler.
If you always want to use Google when searching in your web browser, then this article is for you. We will tell you how to install the “Good Corporation” search platform in each of the currently popular browsers that provide this feature.
We will start, of course, with the most common web browser today - Google Chrome. In general, as a product of a well-known Internet giant, this browser already contains Google search installed by default. But it happens that after installing some software, another “search engine” takes its place.
In this case, you will have to correct the situation yourself.
That's all. After these simple steps, when searching in the address bar (omnibox) of Chrome, Google search results will again be displayed.
At the time of writing browser from Mozilla by default uses Yandex search. At least the version of the program for the Russian-speaking segment of users. Therefore, if you want to use Google instead, you will have to correct the situation yourself.
This can be done, again, in just a couple of clicks.
It is done. Now a quick search on Google is possible not only through the address dialing bar, but also through a separate search bar, which is located to the right and marked accordingly.
Initially Opera just like Chrome, it uses Google search. By the way, this web browser is completely based on the open project of the Good Corporation - Chromium.
If, nevertheless, the default search has been changed and you want to return Google to this “post”, here, as they say, everything is from the same opera.
In fact, the process of setting the default search engine in Opera is almost no different from those described above.
But here everything is a little different. Firstly, in order for Google to appear in the list of available search engines, you must use the site at least once google.ru through Edge browser. Secondly, the corresponding setting is “hidden” quite far away and it can be somewhat difficult to find it right away.
The process for changing the default search engine in Microsoft Edge is as follows.
Again, if you haven't used Google Search in MS Edge before, you won't see it in this list.
Well, where would we be without the “everyone’s favorite” web browser IE. Quick search in the address bar began to be supported in the eighth version of Donkey. However, the process of setting the default search engine was constantly changing with the change of numbers in the name of the web browser.
We will look at installing Google search as the main one using the latest version of Internet Explorer - eleventh as an example.
Compared to previous browsers, things are even more confusing here.
That's all. In principle, there is nothing complicated about this.
Usually changing the default search in the browser occurs without problems. But what if this is absolutely impossible to do and every time after changing the main search engine, it changes again to something else.
In this case, the most logical explanation is that your PC is infected with a virus. To remove it, you can use any antivirus tool like Malwarebytes AntiMalware.
After cleaning the system from malware, the problem with the inability to change the search engine in the browser should disappear.
