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Sanity restored: I had the same problem. I have two logins to Windows 10, with identical settings in Edge. One behaved properly when searching in the URL bar, one didn't as above - and even more frustratingly, when I selected the "Search for.." option, it took me to Bing and not Google as per my preferred setting. Found the answer on Reddit (but can't find where now). Turns out Edge is referencing back to your IE settings. Open IE (yes, it is still there) and under Tools, Manage Add Ons, Search Providers disable Bing and enable the default to "Search in the address bar on a new tab page." Miraculously, it fixes the issue in Edge!
Hard to understand how Microsoft could let this bit of shoddy programming persist: I, and many others I'm sure, would end up rejecting Edge and going back to Chrome.