How to Make Google Your Default Search Engine

Make Google default search engine
This is the easiest and fastest method for making Google your default search engine.

It’s silly not to set up Google as your default search engine. For most purposes, it’s simply the best search engine there is.

As of the writing of this article, 74.8% of the world’s internet users use Google.

And making Google your search engine is easy as pie. Here’s how:

Before making Google your default search engine, 2 questions:

  1. What kind of device are you using? Tip: You are either using a desktop computer (i.e. pretty much anything with a keyboard) or a mobile device (i.e. a phone or a tablet).
  2. What browser are you using? Tip: The “browser” is the app you open when accessing the internet. The main ones are: Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Please click the relevant answer below to jump conveniantly to the relevant tutorial. I’m using a:


Google Chrome - setting up Google as your default search engine

Chrome desktop browser:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on a Google Chrome desktop browser.

This will be a cinch.

1) Copy and paste this exact link into your Chrome browser:

chrome://settings/searchEngines?search=search+engine

2) Then click the 3 dots in the row labeled “Google” (see below)

3) Choose “Make default” and you’re done.


Mozilla Firefox - setting up Google as your default search engine

Firefox desktop browser:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on a Mozilla Firefox desktop browser.

1) Open up your Firefox browser

2) Put this exact URL code in the Firefox browser and press enter:

about:preferences#search

(Doing so will make it so that you can skip the initial steps and get right to the point where you can change the default search engine to Google)

3) Scroll down to the Default Search Engine section, click on the current default search engine, and choose “Google”

That’s it. Easy peasy.


Setting up Google as your default search engine on Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge desktop browser:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on a Microsoft Edge desktop browser.

1) Open up your Microsoft Edge browser

2) Go to the Google homepage

3) Click the 3-dot icon in the upper right-hand corner and then click “Settings”

Setting up Google as your default search engine in Edge browser

4) In the “Settings” menu, scroll down to the “Advanced settings” section and click the “View advanced settings” button

Setting up Google as your default search engine in Edge browser - view advanced settings

5) In the “Advanced settings” menu, scroll down to the “Privacy and services” section and click the “Change search engine” button

Setting up Google as your default search engine in Edge browser - change search engine

6) In the “Change search engine” menu click where it says “Google Search (discovered)” and then click the “Set as default” button

Setting up Google as your default search engine in Edge browser -set as default

If you’ve got the impression that Microsoft Edge is purposely making it difficult to change your search engine to Google, you’re probably right. Microsoft wants you to use it’s search engine Bing and click on Bing advertisements. Because money.


Making Google your default search engine on a mobile device

If you are on a mobile device, the name of the browser you are using is just the name of the app you open when accessing the internet from your mobile device. The main ones are: Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.


Chrome mobile app:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on the Google Chrome mobile app:

Setting up Google as your default search engine on Google Chrome

If you are using Google Chrome in mobile, all you have to do to make Google your search engine is:

1) Open up Google Chrome

2) Click the 3 dots at the bottom of the screen.

3-dot icon

3) Choose “Settings”

Settings

4) Choose “Search Engine”

Setting up Google as your default search engine in Chrome mobile app

5) Choose Google Chrome:

Choose Google

That’s it. Not surprisingly, Google makes it very easy for Google Chrome users to make Google as their search engine.


Safari mobile app:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on Apple’s Safari mobile app:

Setting up Google as your default search engine on the Safari browser

If you are using the Safari browser in mobile, all you have to do to make Google your search engine is:

1) Open your Safari Browser

2) At the very bottom of the screen click the upload icon:

3) Click “Add to Home Screen”

Adding Google shortcut to Safari home screen

4) In the top right-hand corner click “Add”

Final step to adding Google to home screen with the Safari browser

5) Then your phone will display an icon called “Google” that will open Google Chrome in the Safari browser.

That’s it.


Firefox mobile app:

Here is how to make Google your default search engine on the Mozilla Firefox mobile app:

Setting up Google as your default search engine on Mozilla Firefox

If you are using Firefox in mobile, all you have to do to make Google your search engine is:

1) Open up the Firefox browser

2) In the bottom right-hand corner click the navigation button aka the “hamburger icon”:

3) Click “Settings”:

Firefox settings

4) Click “Search”

Switching default search engine in Firefox

5) Click on the “Default Search Engine” (whatever it is, in this case it’s Bing):

6) Then, click on “Google”:

Choosing default search engine in Firefox - final step

From now on any search you do using Firefox will automatically be a Google search.

Now that Google is your default search engine…

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