08 April 2026

How to set Google search as the default in Chromium

 

Somebody either had something against Google or somebody on the Chromium team understood UI/UX so poorly that it left people frustrated at not being able to add Google as the default search engine on Chromium. This is all you need to do:

Under Search engine > Site Search, you'll find an Add button. Click it and add Google by adding the following in the fields:

  • Name: Google
  • Shortcut: @google
  • URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s 

Then it appears in the Site Search section. Click the overflow menu (the three dots in a vertical line) and click "Make default". 

That's it. From now on Google will be the default search engine. Try not to just leave it at this. Try convincing the programmers to make the interface simpler. I might have posted a request on some forum long back, but they didn't bother fixing it.

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