Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Once you've done so, you can make it the default using the instructions below.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. For DuckDuckGo, visit DuckDuckGo's homepage. If you want to install Google, visit Google's homepage. This is the same way Google Chrome works, too-visit a web page with OpenSearch and Chrome will automatically detect it.Īll you need to do is visit the search engine's website to add that search engine to Edge. Related: How to Add Any Search Engine to Your Web Browser Instead, when you visit a web page that uses the 'OpenSearch' standard to expose its search engine information, Edge notices this and makes a record of the search engine information. Microsoft Edge no longer uses search providers you have to install from Microsoft's website. If you're using the legacy version of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 (which Microsoft now considers obsolete), the instructions on how to change your default browser are different than the steps shown above. Switch the Default Search Engine in Classic Microsoft Edge
