Internet Explorer is a fairly liberal browser. You can choose which search provider you want to use. However, there is a bug in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10130 that prevents you from changing your search provider. Fortunately, there is still the option to import several values into the registry and thus use Google or Seznam for searching.
North America and Western Europe will pass by unnoticed, that’s where Bing is supported. But here in Central and Southeastern Europe, Bing is simply not supported. Well, the user interface is localized, but in the one year that I used Bing for searching, I came across dozens of cases where it was faster to try Google or Seznam than to try to explain to Bing what I actually wanted to find. For example, the query registr windows – Google vs. Seznam vs. Bing.
Fortunately, it is still possible to work around this error. Just add the appropriate entries to the Windows registry and the search providers will appear in IE again.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes]
"DefaultScope"="{BDDB3402-EA02-4C2F-BEAE-D3ED25010CE0}"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{5F6BEDCF-25CA-42B6-8F9B-FEF3D52F43DB}]
@="Seznam"
"DisplayName"="Seznam"
"FaviconURL"="http://www.seznam.cz/favicon.ico"
"URL"="http://search.seznam.cz/?q={searchTerms}"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{BDDB3402-EA02-4C2F-BEAE-D3ED25010CE0}]
@="Google"
"DisplayName"="Google"
"FaviconURL"="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico"
"SuggestionsURL"="http://clients5.google.com/complete/search?q={searchTerms}&hl=en&gl=ca&client=ie8&mw={ie:maxWidth}&sh={ie:sectionHeight}&rh={ie:rowHeight}&inputencoding={inputEncoding}&outputencoding={outputEncoding}"
"ShowSearchSuggestions"=dword:00000001
"URL"="https://www.google.cz/search?q={searchTerms}"Just copy the above code from this page to Notepad and save the file with the reg extension. Then you need to open the file and add the information to the registry. Eventually, I just restarted Internet Explorer and voilà the default search provider is Google. If you want to set List instead, add the following information to the registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes]
"DefaultScope"="{5F6BEDCF-25CA-42B6-8F9B-FEF3D52F43DB}"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{5F6BEDCF-25CA-42B6-8F9B-FEF3D52F43DB}]
@="Seznam"
"DisplayName"="Seznam"
"URL"="http://search.seznam.cz/?q={searchTerms}"
"FaviconURL"="http://www.seznam.cz/favicon.ico"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{BDDB3402-EA02-4C2F-BEAE-D3ED25010CE0}]
@="Google"
"DisplayName"="Google"
"FaviconURL"="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico"
"SuggestionsURL"="http://clients5.google.com/complete/search?q={searchTerms}&hl=en&gl=ca&client=ie8&mw={ie:maxWidth}&sh={ie:sectionHeight}&rh={ie:rowHeight}&inputencoding={inputEncoding}&outputencoding={outputEncoding}"
"ShowSearchSuggestions"=dword:00000001
"URL"="https://www.google.cz/search?q={searchTerms}"This bug will be fixed in the next public test build of Windows 10.