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Horatio808 Author

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Chrome browser now defaults to Bing

Hi, For some reason, my Chrome browser has started defaulting to Bing, a search engine that I've never used before. How can I change back to Google?

MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 12:02 AM

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Nov 16, 2020 12:26 AM in response to Horatio808

This problem occurs maybe because you accidentally clicked "Bing" in your search engine setup on your chrome browser. To fix this, simply go to settings and you will find all the search engines you can set to default under "Basics". Simply click on your current search engine and choose Google as your default. Hope that helps!

Thanks

Horatio808 Author

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Nov 16, 2020 12:42 AM in response to akinade128

Many thanks, akinade128

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