The search engine is nothing but a program which crawls the entire web for a specific search query and shows the results related to the search term or keyword.ĭue to activity of some malware, the default search engine of any browser may be changed, and you need to set the default search engine to Google manually. You can change the search engine and set it to Google very easily. But, Bing is used as the default search provider in Internet Explorer and Edge browser. By default, Firefox also sets it’s primary search engine to Google web search. Chrome is the own product of Google, and it’s default search engine is Google naturally. Most of the major web browsers set Google as default search engine. But, the use of Google search engine out-compete all others. Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo are also the two search providers. What search engine do you use in your web browser? Is it Google or something else? Among all search engines, only few gets popularity and Google is the most popular search engine among all. Thanks to my colleague Sassan for testing and supplying the. xml file that points to that search engine instead and make sure it supports Opensearch 1.1. This can of course be used to change the search engine to something else than Google as well, just create an. When logging on the a computer which the group policy is applied to, you can if you are fast enough see that the search engine changes from Bing to Google under Settings\advanced settings. Then we configure the Group Policy setting to point to the. We then need to place that on a webserver reachable from the clients that use HTTPS, in my lab I put it on my SCCM server under Opensearch and called it opensearch.xml as well. xml file that can be used to set the default search engine to Google instead of Bing using a group policy, it can be downloaded here: Opensearch.xml
We simply add that to the Group Policy settings and we are done!
The URL is then we don’t have to host any. This can be done in two ways, the easiest one that I overlooked is to actually use the opensearch.xml file hosted by Google! Method 2 still works, Thanks for the comment on this post! xml file that complies with the Opensearch 1.1 framework and we need to host that file on a Webserver that the clients can reach and it must use HTTPS. We can also set the default search enginge to something else than Bing with group policies. In Windwe have some new really great new Group Policy settings for Microsoft Edge, the most important making it possible to sync favorites between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
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