Turn the tide with Chrometana Pro, a chrome extension forcing Windows and Cortana to use Google Chrome and your favorite search engine instead of Edge and Bing. Pick between Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and Baidu.

How to Get Cortana to Use Chrome Open Cortana by clicking its icon on taskbar (or other ways). Type Choose a default browser into the search box. Hit Enter or click on the result. Click on the current default browser under Web browser option in the Default apps panel.

EdgeDeflector will remain available for download, but its developer won’t try to update it until Microsoft changes how it handles edge:// protocol links. The developer of EdgeDeflector stated that there are still ways to make the app work on Windows 11 but that they "require making destructive changes to Windows."

Right-click the taskbar. Select the Search submenu. Choose the option that you want to use: Hidden — removes the search box from the taskbar, but you can still use search on Windows 10 by opening the Start menu and just starting typing the query.

MSN Search (now Bing), a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsoft’s online services, Microsoft Passport (now Microsoft account), also launched across all MSN services in 1999.

What is DuckDuckGo? DuckDuckGo is a search engine that offers a mobile browser app and a desktop extension, both aimed at allowing you to browse the internet without companies gobbling up your personal data.

Here’s how to switch the browser, and set up the Chrome plugin, if needed. Type Settings into the Cortana search bar and hit Enter. Select System. Choose Default apps. Navigate to Web browser, click Microsoft Edge and change it to Firefox or Chrome. Download and install the Chrometana extension.

In order to make Cortana use Google, you need an add-on or extension to redirect the search. With Chrome set as your default web browser, and this extension installed in Chrome, Cortana will send searches to it, and all searches will be made on Google. …

Chrometana will automatically redirect bing searches to your prefered search engine when you type in a query and are presented with an option that says “see search results.” That’s it! From now on, any web search in the Windows search bar will open up a new Google search in Google . . . Read more

You can use Cortana to find virtually anything on your computer or on the web. Typically, you’ll use the assistant to find files stored locally on your computer or OneDrive, settings, and web results to answer more complex searches.