Search engine choice ?

[himmm]

I have Nexus 5 and I use Dolphin browser (Version 10.2.6).

Can I use google as default search engine? I can not seem to find any option for that.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Hadron]

Welcome to the forum

I just tried Dolphin out, and Google was the default. I couldn't find any setting to change it though.
Some browsers have a setting for this, some do not. Some that do are Firefox, NBPro and Boat. But on most Google is the default, which is also what I found with Dolphin. This is just typing the search string into the url bar. What does yours do instead?

 

[funkylogik]

^same

 

[himmm]

Ohhh noooo...I think I am going senile

I just don't know why I thought of that, it wasn't.....My apologies...but for some peculiar reason it gives me majority results related to USA. I live in the UK.

I think what confused me was....Settings/Search Engine/Vertical Search Engine....then one sees....Amazon, You tube, Wikipedia...and so on. No Google.

Can't quite understand.....Sorry for wasting your time and thank you.

 

[funkylogik]

Lol its not a problem. I think you can make google use google.co.uk by default so that you get UK results but i cant remember how lol. Someone else will know so stay tuned :thumbup:

 

[himmm]

Thank you Funkylogik. Yes, Like you said, I hope someone can tell me how to make google.co.uk default.

 

[zuben el genub]

If you can't make a default, put it on the speed dial. Boat allows Duck Duck Go as default along with Bing and Yahoo. I put a link on the start page or speed dial of Boat for Ixquick and Start Page. If I want to search, I use the link to their search pages.

 

[himmm]

Thank you for your answer zuben el genub.

Could you please tell me what do you mean by "put it on the speed dial".

Thank you

 

[zuben el genub]

Speed Dial is what Opera calls the page when you open the browser. Pale Moon calls it something else. I don't like those pages on the PC, but it's OK on the phone and tablet.

Here's Boat's opening page. You can delete or add to if you have the purchased version. Most browsers now have these. Firefox for computer is adding one.

 

[himmm]

Thank you to everyone who was trying to help.

Below answer from "Dolphin" solved my problem.

Enter the URL bar and tap the search engine icon to the left. Here you can choose the search engine you prefer. The options include Google, Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo and Yandex.

 

[!on]

I use Lightning browser with DuckDuckGo set to search.

Another idea is to set your homepage to a different search page than what is in your search bar.

 

[zuben el genub]

I have links to Ixquick and Startpage. I use mostly Startpage. They are not in the default list. Duck is the default choice.