Why Has My Google Search Been Hijacked By Bing?

AndiFlatland | 13:20 Mon 28th Dec 2020 | Technology

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I have hundreds of tabs open on my computer. Many of them are Google searches which I often return to at some later time. Google dictionary is especially useful, as is Google translate. But in the last week or so, every time I click on one of the Google tabs, it automatically defaults to Bing, which is extremely annoying, as I find Bing is completely inferior to Google. It makes no difference if I go to the URL strip at the top, and delete it and replace it with Google.com, it still defaults to Bing. Has Bing taken over Google, or have they just found some clever way of stealing Google's clientele? I am absolutely fed up with these strange events, which seem to happen without any warning every so often, and whether or not the rest of us agree with it. Do I have a choice? Or do I just have to shrug my shoulders and go with it? Is there some way of telling my computer that when I say Google, I bloody well mean Google, and NOT ***in' Bing?

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LadyCG

Have you set it as your default browser?

AndiFlatland

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Not that I'm aware of. I'm somewhat technically lacking - how would I do that - or how would I change it if I've done that inadvertently?

bobbinwales

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95417?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=0

alavahalf

Whatever you type in your browser is all that your search engine will look for .. as LCG has already stated you need to change your default search engine..

Select Settings and more > Settings . Select Privacy and services. Scroll all the way down to the Services section and select Address bar. Choose your preferred search engine from the Search engine used in the address bar menu.

bobbinwales

If just Google search rather than chrome.....

Click the Tools icon at the far right of the browser window.
Select Internet options.
In the General tab, find the Search section and click Settings.
Select Google.
Click Set as default and click Close.

Maydup

Once you have checked your default browser which has myseriously changed to Bing, and put it back to Google, you might also think about setting some of your regular sites as your favourites.

Once on the site you use regularly, click on the star at the top right of the screen. It should say Add this to Favourites. Do that and then your list of favourites can be accessed via the next star along.

AndiFlatland

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Thanks for your answers everybody - sorry it's taken me so long to respond, but I've had all manner of other problems to sort out in the meantime, and this is the first chance I've had to return to this one.
It was none of the things anybody sugested, and my efforts to do what you said went nowhere. But a week or so ago, I noticed that there was an icon on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, which I'd never used, to the best of my knowledge. I clicked on it, and it put a full screen of Bing stuff up. So I clicked on the X box at top right, and the Bing stuff disappeared. I then found that I could call up Google without it defaulting to Bing, and that when I opened up a new tab and searched on Google, it stayed on Google. Bing-go! Problem solved! Anybody heard of this stupid thing before?