Bing installs itself automatically as default search engine in Windows browsers. You can use other search engines like Google, Yahoo, Yandex, and Duck Duck Go etc if you’d like. There is something similar you will find in Chrome and Firefox. Well if you are removing Bing from the default that doesn’t mean you will be unable to access it when needed.
Choosing Search Engine That Satisfies Your Needs
If you are a mature internet user you must be aware of dozens of search engine for a variety of tasks, these are accessed when required. Google is the most popular and yet the most powerful search engine (at least I consider it!). First, you need to identify your needs and then select the desired search that you would like to use as a default for your browser.
To locate a search engine and have your web browser discover it:
- Open the browser you’d like to use.
- In the Address bar type the applicable web site name and navigate there:
- Skip to the section that matches the web browser you’re using to continue.
How to Remove Bing in Microsoft Edge
To remove Bing from the Microsoft Edge web browser, follow the steps mention below in Edge
- Click the ‘three ellipses’ in the upper right corner.
- Click ‘View Advanced Settings’.
- Select ‘Change Search Engine’.
- Click ‘Set as Default’.
How to Replace Bing in Internet Explorer or IE
To remove Bing from the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, in Internet Explorer:
- Click on the ‘Settings’ icon and click ‘Manage Add-Ons’.
- Click ‘Search Providers’.
- At the bottom of the Manage Add-Ons window, click ‘Find more search providers’.
- Choose the desired ‘search provider’. There aren’t many options, but Google Search is available.
- Click ‘Add’, and click ‘Add’ again.
- In the Manage Add-Ons window, click ‘Close’.
- Click the ‘Settings’ cog and click ‘Manage Add-Ons’ again.
- Select ‘Search Providers’.
- Click the search provider you added in Step 4.
- Select Set as Default.
- Click Close.
How to Switch from Bing to Another Search Engine in Firefox
If you’ve previously set Bing to be the default search provider in Firefox, you can change it. To replace Bing as your search engine, in Firefox:
- Navigate to the ‘search engine’ to use, as noted in the previous section.
- Click the ‘three horizontal lines’ in the top right corner and click ‘Options’.
- Tap ‘Search’.
- Click the ‘arrow’ by the ‘listed search engine’ and then select the ‘one you’d like to use’.
- You do not need to click Save or Close.
How to Replace Bing in Chrome
If you’ve previously set Bing to be the default search provider in Chrome, you can change it. To remove Bing from the Chrome web browser, in Chrome:
- Navigate to the search engine to use, as noted in the previous section.
- You Just have to Click the ‘three horizontal dots’ in the top right corner of the browser window.
- Click ‘Settings’.
- You have to Click on the ‘arrow by the current default search engine’.
- Click the ‘search engine’ to use.
- You do not need to click Save or Close.
I hope that was helpful for you to remove bing from your internet browser.
