Use chrome/google as default for search results

Try Bing2google. You do need Chrome to run the extension.

fracking4oil said:

Look all you like, but you won't find a way to change it from Bing to anything else. This is MS's way of getting more people to use Bing. At least in the U.S. Bing is just as good as Google, so no big deal for us, but it sucks for those markets that Bing sucks in.

The sad thing is that Yahoo now uses Bing for their searches.

I think it's only meant to change the default search engine for the internet (address bar)
I'm sure someone will come up with something for the Taskbar search.

I've always had Cortana and the taskbar search turned off, never used it, don't need or want to use it.

Turned it on to have a quick play with this.

I got half the way there by adding an entry to the hosts file. The search then goes to Google, only trouble is it appears Google doesn't like having bing.com as the domain name in the URL, it just returns the 404 page...

A bit of browser tweaking should fix that, i.e. that bing2google chrome plugin.

I use Firefox, so can't verify. There's a bing2duck add-on but I can't be bothered to mod it at the mo.

Definitely an easily fixable 'problem' though.

swarfega said:

hmm mine still uses bing after doing your instructions. It works in the search page on Edge but not in the taskbar search.

Yes, this is the issue I want to fix.

No matter what engine you change it to in the browser.

The taskbar search will always use Bing.

This is crap because Bing results are just not as good google.

And therefore the taskbar search won't be as good.

Always I wonder if there could be any anti trust laws with this?

fracking4oil said:

Look all you like, but you won't find a way to change it from Bing to anything else. This is MS's way of getting more people to use Bing. At least in the U.S. Bing is just as good as Google, so no big deal for us, but it sucks for those markets that Bing sucks in.

Bing results are crap compared to google.

I have tried it many times already.

Hope there is some antitrust issues that will force microsoft to let us change the search engine in taskbar search.