We will be showing you the steps to change your default search engine to Google in all these cases. In such cases your default search engine would be Bing. This can happen due to a malware on your computer or you may have switched to some other search engine unknowingly.Īnother case where you will be dealing with a change in search engine is when you update your computer to Windows 10 operating system or buy a new Windows 10 computer. However, it is quite possible for the default search engine on Chrome and Firefox to be switched from Google to some other search provider. In case your computer has Google Chrome or Firefox browser installed on it, it is likely that your computer is already set to use Google search engine. Set Google As Default Search Engineīy changing the default search engine to Google on your computer you are ensuring that all your search queries that you will be typing in the search bar are brought to you by Google’s search engine. In general a browser can be described as an interface that connects users to the internet while a search engine is a specialized program, dedicated to bringing out search results that are matching the search words typed by a user. All these browsers make use of search engines to bring you the search results. In case you are wondering, Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge are classified as web browsers and not search engines.
