How do I edit or add my search engine options in Google Chrome?

Posted by Andrew.

The default search engines of Google Chrome is set to Google Search. You can manually add or edit search engines on Google Chrome. To do this, first open the Search Engines dialog box, please do following steps:

1. Click the Tools menu, then then select Option

2. Click the Basics tab
3. Click the Manage button in the Default search section. The Search Engines dialog box opens.

You can also right-click the web address area on the address box and select Edit search engines to open the Search Engines dialog box.

Add or edit search engine options on Google Chrome

To add a new search engine, click the Add button on Search Engines dialog box. To edit an existing search engine, select the search engine and click the button.

Provide the following information:

• Name: Nickname for the search engine.
• Keyword: This field is optional. Fill out this field if you want to create a text shortcut for the search engine.
• URL: Type the URL for the search engine into this field, insert %s in the URL where the search terms should appear.

Search engines option examples

Here are some search engines option examples, you can directly copy/paste them to add your Google Chrome:

1. Add Wikipedia search engine to your Google Chrome
• Name - Wikipedia
• Keyword - wiki
• URL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
2. Add Google Translate (English) search engine to your Google Chrome
• Name - Google Translate (English)
• Keyword - trans
• URL - http://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s
3. Add Google Image search engine to your Google Chrome
• Name - Google Image
• Keyword - image
• URL - http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%s
4. Add MSDN(Microsoft Developer Network) to your Google Chrome
• Name - MSDN Developer
• Keyword - msdn
• URL - http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?query=%s

Choose default search engine

1. Click the Tools menu, then then select Option
2. Click the Basics tab.
3. Select the search engine from the Default search drop-down menu that you'd like Google Chrome to use.
4. Click the Close button.

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