Use Google instead of Bing with Windows 10 search
I want to use Google Chrome and Google search instead of Bing when I search in Windows 10.
Google Chrome is launched when I click on web, but it's Bing search. (My default search engine on Google and Edge is )
I haven't found how to configure that.
Someone can help me ?
16 Answers
There is no way to change the default in Cortana itself but you can redirect it in Chrome. You said that it opens the results in the Chrome browser but it used Bing search right?
There's a Chrome extension now that will redirect Bing to Google, DuckDuckGo, or Yahoo, whichever you prefer. More information on that in the second link.
4Use EdgeAndBingDeflector
This tiny programs diverts all your Cortana searches to your default browser and converts them (optionally) to Google or DuckDuckGo.
You can directly download it here
Tested on the newest Creator's Update
(P.S. I've forked this project from the original project "EdgeDeflector" and modified to divert Bing to other search engines)
21. Use Google Chrome (instead of Edge)
Per How to Make Cortana Search with Google and Chrome Instead of Bing and Edge, you can download the Original EdgeDeflector (use Instead of PulseJet's fork above). Next time you search, select EdgeDeflector as the default app.
Cortana / Start Menu Search redirects links by using the protocol URL:microsoft-edge. EdgeDeflector works by also registering that protocol and allowing you to select the default browser to handle the web request
2. Use Google Search (instead of Bing)
The second problem is when chrome opens, the URL is still pointed to a bing search
Next, you can use Requestly chrome extension to redirect urls. While you can redirect all URLs against Bing, that will also prevent you from any searches you make yourself. Cortana adds some extra query params (form=WNSGPH) and we can opt to redirect only when those are present and forward along the search terms.
So redirect this request based on this regex:
/https:\/\/www\.bing\.com\/search\?q=(.*)&form=WNSGPH.*/To this URL:
1The start search in Windows 10 uses the default search engine defined in the Microsoft Edge browser. By default, of course, this is Bing.
to change to DuckDuckGo:
- Launch the Microsoft Edge browser
- Go to
- Click the ... icon at the top right
- Click Settings
- Scroll down and click "View advanced settings"
- Under "Search in the address bar with" select "Add New"
- Select "DuckDuckGo" and click "Add as default"
Confirm that it's all working by doing a search in the Edge browser and making sure the results go to DuckDuckGo.
The Start Search should now start using the same. Note you might have to restart your machine for the Start Search to realise the change.
2Changing default search engine in Windows 10
There have been only workarounds providing this functionality at this time. One of the said workarounds below-
- Download Google Chrome extension Bing2Google or Chrometana
- Done! All searches from Bing are re-directed to Google, even ones done at their web page manually.
As of right now, it is not possible to do this without a third-party extension. If you want to use Google Chrome with Cortana, you'll have to install the Chrome extension, Chrometana.
If you are a Firefox user, it is apparently possible to use whatever search engine you would like, if you have Firefox as your default browser. I tried this yesterday, but I had no luck with it. Maybe I was doing something wrong.
You can check out the article here.
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