{"id":1052,"date":"2014-03-23T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2014-03-23T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T00:49:43","slug":"internet-explorer-and-google-search-provider-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2014\/03\/internet-explorer-and-google-search-provider-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer and Google Search Provider: Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Switching from Bing to Google as a default Search Provider. This is one of those issues that has had me frustrated for a number of years, since IE9 in fact. The Google Search Provider was simply not available. Even the Google page tells me that all I need to do is go to the IE Tools -> Manage Add-ons -> Find More Search providers and I’ll be able to select Google. Nup, that just does not work.<\/p>\n

Have a look at this screenshot from IE11 this morning (the same occurred with IE9 and IE10)<\/p>\n

\"2014-03-23<\/a><\/p>\n

See that there are two links for Bing and then eBay and Grays On-line Auctions.<\/p>\n

If you search in the little search box for Google the only option is a Search Accelerator which is just not the Provider we are looking for.<\/p>\n

But if you search the web for ‘Change Bing to Google’ you only ever find the same instructions. I wrote about this a while back and manually tracked down a Google\u00a0Search Provider\u00a0add-on link in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With setting up a new install of Windows on a PC this morning I tried again and finally the ‘penny dropped’. If you look closely at the URL it is targeting EN-AU or English Australia and if we change that part of the URL to EN-US\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0magic happens. We get a host of Search Providers that are not available by default on the EN-AU page.<\/p>\n

\"EN-US<\/a><\/p>\n

So if you are in Australia and want to change to Google or anything other than Bing then you need to modify the URL. All the links on the internet are correct but only if you live in or have your PC settings for EN-US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Switching from Bing to Google as a default Search Provider. This is one of those issues that has had me frustrated for a number of years, since IE9 in fact. The Google Search Provider was simply not available. Even the Google page tells me that all I need to do is go to the IE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[42,50,53,54,57],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-software","tag-bing","tag-google","tag-ie10","tag-ie11search-provider","tag-ie9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}