Change the Search Engine in Microsoft Edge on Computer

Edge on your computer answers address bar searches with Bing unless you tell it otherwise, and the swap takes about a minute in Settings.

Open Privacy, search, and services, then Address bar and search, and pick your provider from the dropdown. Test a query afterwards: the results page should carry the new engine's branding.

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Switch Edge’s Default Search Engine on Your Computer

Every search you type in the address bar comes back with Bing results. That is the factory setting, not a lock-in, and Edge lets you point that box at another provider in about a minute.

The change happens in Settings. Nothing gets reinstalled, and your history, favorites, and saved passwords stay exactly where they are.

1. Open Microsoft Edge on your computer.
2. Click the menu in the top-right corner.
3. Select Settings from the menu.
4. Select Privacy, search, and services in the left sidebar.
5. Open Search and connected services, or Search and connected experiences if that is the label shown in your Edge version.
6. Select Address bar and search.
7. Open the Search engine used in the address bar dropdown.
8. Choose the search engine you want to use.

You’ll know it worked when… a test query typed in the address bar returns results from the provider you picked. A full web address typed into that same box should still go straight to the site.

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Add a Search Provider That Isn’t in the List

Your provider has no entry in that dropdown. Current Edge builds can still pick up an OpenSearch-compatible site, but only after Edge has watched the site’s search service run once.

1. Open your preferred search provider’s website in Edge.
2. Run a test search using the site’s search box.
3. Return to Address bar and search in Edge Settings.
4. Open the Search engine used in the address bar dropdown.
5. Confirm that the provider now appears in the list.

Still missing? Open Manage search engines and check the Site search list.

Custom-engine controls vary by Edge build. Some versions give you no way to add a site by hand, so running that single search is usually the only path.

Set the Search Engine That New Tabs Use

Address bar searches now go to your new provider, but the search box on the new tab page still hands you Bing. Edge treats those as two separate settings.

1. Go back to Address bar and search in Edge Settings.
2. Find Search on new tabs uses search engine or website.
3. Open the dropdown for that setting.
4. Choose the same search provider, or choose a website if you want new-tab searches to open a specific site.

This option covers searches submitted from the new tab page only. It does not replace the address bar setting, so check both whenever the two boxes disagree.

Change Edge Search on Another Device

You set this up on the laptop, then pick up your phone and find Bing waiting again. The desktop setting never travels to the mobile app, so each device keeps its own choice.

On Android, change the default search engine in Edge on Android from the app’s own settings menu.