Change search engine. Google Chrome search engine: advantages and disadvantages
Hello to everyone who has visited our website. Today we will look at how to set or change the search system in Google Chrome. You probably know that in modern browsers the address bar is also the search bar. We calmly enter our search query there, and the system gives us the results. This system may differ in different browsers: in one, Yandex is installed by default, in another - Google.
Each of us has our own preferences for working with one or another search service. And so sometimes there are times when the default search engine does not attract our sympathy. In this case, it can be changed.
How to change the search engine
To do this, go to the main menu of the Chrome browser and select “ Settings»
Then in the section " Search"From the drop-down list, select the desired service that will process our search queries.
As you can see, you can choose Yandex, Mail.ru. Google by default. Select any one from the list and now the selected system will answer your questions.
If this is enough for you and you have learned how to change the search service in your browser, then thank you for your attention and further success. You can move on to view another page.
However, the current article would be incomplete if we overlooked managing search engines and adding your own.
For additional settings, click on the button " Set up search engines...»
A window will open in which we see the installed search services. And below are additional ones, from various sites on which we once looked for something. Just below there will be fields for entering data of the search engine you want to add.
Let's start with the top block (main). You can also make it the main search system here, point it at the desired one, and the “” button appears. Use as default", click on it. If you need to delete a service, then click on the cross on the right.
Adding a search engine
As an example, let's add a search from the free classifieds site - Avito. This can be quite useful if you often look for inexpensive products and buy through this portal. But first, look at the previous screenshot. To add, we need to specify a link with parameters in the third field. Where can I get it?
Go to Avito (or another site that you want to add to the list of search engines), select your city, region in which you will search.
Now let's find ads with a sofa for sale. Enter the word “sofa” and press search (you can just press Enter)/
We are not interested in sofas, we need to see how a link is formed, which we can then use. Let's look at the address bar and look carefully. Let's take it apart
So, first comes (avito.com), then the name of our region or city is indicated (in our case - angarsk), and then it is followed by a search parameter (?q=), equal to our query “sofa”. We need to copy the entire link except the searched request (https://www.avito.ru/angarsk?q=) and paste it into the third field
In the first field we indicate the name of our search system, in the second field for quick access. Once all the fields have been filled in, click anywhere on the screen and our service has been successfully added.
Let's set it as default. After which it will move to the upper block.
Now let's check how it works. Let's enter any request and see that our created system processes it.
The search results will be on Avito from your city or region.
We can finish here. Today we learned how to change the search engine in the browser and how to add an additional one.
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Google Chrome is a browser-designer, the store of which offers a huge number of extensions and applications that can seriously increase its functionality in the right direction. For example, Chrome can be “tuned” with various extensions for working with photo or video content. You can turn your browser into a super-application for social networks. can be turned into a platform for working with cloud technologies and web services functionality.
But many users will probably be more interested in upgrading their browser to improve information search. Google Chrome can become a powerful tool for web surfing, which will allow you to quickly and conveniently search for information on the Internet.
Below we will look at 5 search extensions that can be included with the Google Chrome browser.
1. Quick Search app
The “Quick Search” application for Google Chrome is a good alternative to the idea of implementing a search field in the Windows taskbar, which Microsoft implemented in the new tenth version of the system. The search field in the taskbar is both convenient and time-saving.
A small difference between “Quick Search” and the four other review extensions is that it is not an extension, but an application. And this allows it to go beyond the browser. “Quick Search” is embedded as a widget in the Google Chrome application bar; with a separate shortcut it can be placed on the desktop or start screen of Windows 8.1.
But the main purpose of the application is to attach it to the Windows taskbar. By clicking the application shortcut, you will see a small field for entering search phrases. Enter the data and press the Enter key.
The search results will open in a new Chrome tab. The “Quick Search” application is developed by Google, therefore the search will be carried out only by the Google search engine without any alternatives in the settings.
But only the “Quick Search” application does not provide alternatives. Google Chrome is such a flexible and customizable browser that an alternative may appear in one way or another. For example, using the following Chrome extension.
2. Google Alternative Search extension
If during the search process the necessary information is not found in one search engine, it is worth looking for this information using another search engine. Different search engines have different search algorithms, and a clear example of this is different sites for an identical search query in the first positions of search results. And, perhaps, another search engine will lead to a site that will provide the information you are looking for completely and meaningfully. The largest search engine on the Runet, Yandex, provides the ability to search through alternative systems. At the bottom of the page with search results, the same search query can be viewed in two other search engines - Google and Bing - by clicking the corresponding link with one click. But Google does not provide the ability to search through alternative search engines. But this can be changed using the Google Alternative Search extension.
The extension adds a button to the Google search results page to quickly open the same results (for the entered search query) in the Yandex search engine.
“Alternative Google Search” only adds the Yandex button. The following extension will help you to transfer Google search results with one button to other search engines and web services.
3. “Search All” extension
The “Search All” extension adds quick navigation buttons to Google search results along with the entered search query to other search engines.
And these will be buttons not only for search engines, but also for various web services. “Search All” allows you to search in search engines Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, video hosting Youtube, Wikipedia, trading platforms eBay, Amazon, the social network Twitter and other popular web resources.
Plus, the “Search All” extension is built into the Chrome browser toolbar with a button. This button opens a search field for entering a query. Here we can select buttons for search engines or web services to conduct a search.
The extension is customizable.
In the parameters, we can configure the behavior of the extension functions, as well as add buttons for other web services that are not initially preinstalled from the proposed list. For example, you can add buttons for popular social networks.
4. “In-Site Search” extension
Not every site on the Internet is equipped with the ability to search within the site, and if we are talking about large web projects, users have to search for the necessary information at random. And it’s good if there is a site map or at least a clearly organized menu. You can not depend on whether the site creator deigned to install internal search in it by introducing a special extension into Google Chrome that can search inside any site on the Internet.
There are several extensions in the Google Chrome store that allow you to search for information within sites. “In-Site Search” differs from its analogues in the ability to select a search engine that will search inside the site.
The “In-Site Search” extension is built into the browser toolbar as a separate button. By clicking on this button, we will see a search field appear for entering data.
After entering a search query and pressing Enter, the search results within a specific site will open in a separate tab. By default, the search is performed by the Google system, you can change it in the extension parameters.
You can also instruct the search engines Yandex, Bing and Yahoo to search for data inside sites other than Google.
The extension's search field can be called up using the hotkeys Ctrl+Shift+F.
5. “Contextual Search” extension
Google Chrome natively provides the ability to search for highlighted words or phrases from the context menu, but only through the search engine installed in the browser by default. You can expand the number of web services for searching from the context menu using the “Contextual Search” extension.
After installation, you must immediately configure the necessary search engines. And since “Contextual Search” does not provide a button in the browser toolbar, we will get to the extension parameters through the Chrome settings. Click on the “Settings” menu and go to the “Extensions” tab. Find “Contextual Search” and click the parameters link.
Initially, the extension comes pre-installed with several web services for searching from the context menu. These are the torrent tracker RuTracker, Wikipedia, and the media portal Kinopoisk.Ru. That's all. Search engines and other web services must be added manually using the search engine editor. The plus sign button will add a new cell where you need to enter the name of the search engine and its search string code. Then all this must be saved with the appropriate button. Search engines and web services can be moved using arrows, thereby changing their order in the list of context menus.
Just below the search engine editor we will see instructions for adding search engines and web services so that you can use them to search for selected words and phrases from the context menu. Here are examples of search string codes, in particular, for Google and Yandex search engines.
Using the same principle, we can complete the “Contextual Search” extension with any search engines or web services, if their search string codes are available.
After making the settings, we can test the extension. To find information on the selected word or phrase, call the context menu, select “Advanced search”, then click on the desired search engine or web service.
Now all modern browsers support entering search queries from the address bar. At the same time, most web browsers allow you to independently select the desired “search engine” from the list of available ones.
Google is the most popular search engine in the world, but not all browsers use it as their default query handler.
If you always want to use Google when searching in your web browser, then this article is for you. We will tell you how to install the “Good Corporation” search platform in each of the currently popular browsers that provide this feature.
We will start, of course, with the most common web browser today - . In general, as a product of a well-known Internet giant, this browser already contains Google search installed by default. But it happens that after installing some software, another “search engine” takes its place.
In this case, you will have to correct the situation yourself.
That's all. After these simple steps, when searching in the address bar (omnibox) of Chrome, Google search results will again be displayed.
Mozilla Firefox
At the time of writing, Yandex search is used by default. At least the version of the program for the Russian-speaking segment of users. Therefore, if you want to use Google instead, you will have to correct the situation yourself.
This can be done, again, in just a couple of clicks.
It is done. Now a quick search on Google is possible not only through the address dialing bar, but also through a separate search bar, which is located to the right and marked accordingly.
Opera
Initially, just like Chrome, it uses Google search. By the way, this web browser is completely based on the open project of the Good Corporation - .
If, nevertheless, the default search has been changed and you want to return Google to this “post”, here, as they say, everything is from the same opera.
In fact, the process of setting the default search engine in Opera is almost no different from those described above.
Microsoft Edge
But here everything is a little different. Firstly, in order for Google to appear in the list of available search engines, you must use the site at least once google.ru through . Secondly, the corresponding setting is “hidden” quite far away and it can be somewhat difficult to find it right away.
The process for changing the default search engine in Microsoft Edge is as follows.
Again, if you haven't used Google Search in MS Edge before, you won't see it in this list.
Internet Explorer
Well, where would we be without “everyone’s favorite”. Quick search in the address bar began to be supported in the eighth version of Donkey. However, the process of setting the default search engine was constantly changing with the change of numbers in the name of the web browser.
We will look at installing Google search as the main one using the latest version of Internet Explorer - eleventh as an example.
Compared to previous browsers, things are even more confusing here.
That's all. In principle, there is nothing complicated about this.
Usually changing the default search in the browser occurs without problems. But what if this is absolutely impossible to do and every time after changing the main search engine, it changes again to something else.
In this case, the most logical explanation is that your PC is infected with a virus. To remove it, you can use any antivirus tool like .
After cleaning the system from malware, the problem with the inability to change the search engine in the browser should disappear.
The modern version of Google Chrome has a fairly convenient feature - you can enter search queries directly into the address bar. You don't have to open Google.com or Yandex.ru every time you want to surf the Internet. By default, this browser has a search engine installed from the program developer - Google. If you are used to another search engine and want to change it, you can do this through the browser settings menu. In this article we will consider the following topic: “How to change the default search engine in Google Chrome?”
In order to change the active search engine or add a new one, users will need to enter the browser configuration menu. If you don't know how to do this, follow a few simple steps according to the instructions provided:
Additional features
If you want, you can control search in Chrome using your voice. To do this, you just need to connect a microphone or webcam to your personal computer or change the Google Chrome settings. Let's look at this topic in more detail:
Learn more about Smart Search
This interface element is called an omnibox. With its help, you can enter both website addresses for subsequent navigation and search queries in one field. In this case, the system will analyze the already entered part of the request in real time and provide you with hints.
Step-by-step instructions for changing the search engine in the Internet browser Google Chrome (Google Chrome) with visual images of the process.
These instructions will help you change the default search engine, as well as restore the default settings.
Often, due to the use of third-party plugins, applications, adware, your computer may be infected with viruses. This is where an unpleasant moment arises, namely the discovery of a third-party search engine that you do not like at all.
To restore justice, take the following steps:
1. Open Google Browser Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner of the screen, click on the vertical ellipsis (just above there is a button to close the browser). See screenshot.
3. In the menu that appears, click on “Settings”.
4. In the window that opens, find the line “SEARCH”, and in the drop-down menu select a preinstalled search engine: google, yandex, mail. Restart your browser, that's it!
If the search engine you need is not in the list that opens, then read on.
5. N Click on the “Configure search engines” button. INin the new window that opens, select the desired search engine from the list,which is automatically added when you visit searchable sites. Point to the desired search engine and click “Set as default”.
6. Adding your address. Basically, in order not to fill out the fields to add a new page, just go to the site you are interested in. For example, a search engine nigma.ru. ABOUT It will be automatically saved in the search engine settings. All you have to do is choose it and use as default. If the search engine does not appear in the list, close and reopen the browser.
Helpful information!
If nothing worked and after the steps taken the search engine still has not changed, then you have become a victim of hackers who have infected your computer. This does not mean that your computer has been hacked. You yourself could, due to inattention, install “wrong software” when installing a useful program. This happens when the license agreement is not read carefully and all the boxes are checked in a row. By the way, after this, as many people think, Amigo will install itself;) Be careful!
What to do?
1. Scan your computer for viruses.
2. Remove unnecessary and unnecessary software.
3. Use the ADWCleaner program. It removes advertising windows and banners.
4. Disable, deactivate or remove the “left” application from the browser (read the instructions in another article).
5. Check the browser shortcut or create a new one.
6. Clear startup programs.
7. Clear Group Policy settings.
8. Remove “left” keys from the system registry.
9. Comical - measure yourself, reinstall W indows, buy a new computer.
I hope everything worked out for you. And remember, if you suffer for a long time, something will work out :)
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