Google Chrome: Change the Default Search Engine

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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You can search by typing your search query directly into the address bar or by highlighting text on a webpage, right-clicking and selecting the search command. To change which search engine Chrome will use, follow these steps.


1. Open Google Chrome.

2. Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the toolbar and select Options.

3. On the Basics tab, go down to the Default search area and use the dropdown to select the desired search engine. If the desired search engine isn’t listed, click the Manage button to add the new search engine.

4. Click the Close button.

 

11 Comments -


  1. siri said on October 14, 2008

    hi
    I installed chrome in my pc…default search engine is google.hk i want to change it to google english. i am trying to do it as you described in this page..but it was not accepting the changes..iam entering name google
    keyword http://www.google.com/intl/en/
    url http://www.google.com/intl/en/

    even then ok button is disabled..can you please suggest me what shall i enter in url.

  2. Katreen said on October 24, 2008

    I had the same problem but it was coming up as google.ae. Go to this site to learn how to get the correct URL then follow the steps above.

    http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=97118

    It helped me, hope it does for you too. :]

  3. nvaleo said on June 10, 2009

    Havent try this before what benefits could i get from it, i need further collaboration for it. anyways thank you for giving me idea about it, i will try using it.

  4. jazs said on June 20, 2009

    As we all know Google is one of the most popular and widely used search engine now a days, there are lots of cool features that Google offers, thank you for posting such informative post, but as other the commentator had said isn’t it time consuming.

  5. taislim said on July 12, 2009

    I personally use and installed google chrome. I found it so convenient and helpful. I personally prefer Google in general thatn other search engines available so most of the time, I prefer to use google products. This article is very helpful to those who are not using google chrome since the steps are pretty simple and graphic. Nice!

  6. Dan said on August 27, 2009

    And if you want to modify the default seach engine (local version, diffrent language version) how can you change it?

  7. Chris said on August 29, 2009

    add this into the url in the “edit search engine”tab:

    http://google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%s

    (you can replace “google.com” with google.es or wherever you wish to search from.

    Cheers

    Chris

  8. Anonymous said on February 1, 2010

    This is great . Google search engine most popular , but some time we need change

  9. LuckyLindy said on October 4, 2010

    Thank you for the correct answer.

  10. Zoraida San Inocencio said on January 18, 2011

    google and facebook

  11. blaydese said on September 3, 2011

    Chris, cheers to you! That is what worked! Even Google’s own site can’t fix the problem, so sad.

    Peace!

 

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