George
October 6th, 2014, 08:34 AM
This is consistent with my experience with other software "upgrades" in the business world: things that used to work fine no longer do.
It used to be that I would type anything into the address bar and it would search through Google. Now with this new version, it appears to be stuck on Bing no mattter what I do. Bing sucks! It seems to point to "where to buy" whatever I'm searching instead of "here's some info about" whatever I'm seaching as Google does. Things I used to search and find immediately with Google aren't even on the first page of Bing sometimes.
I've been all through the Internet Options, Manage Add-Ons, and everything else I can find but I can't seem to make this work like the old version of IE did. I did find out how to move Google above Bing on the list, but when I type something in, it still searches to Bing rather than Google. I can't seem to select which I want. The old version of IE would let me do that and even let me choose Wikipedia instead of Google if I wanted to. I never even saw Bing on the list with the old browser, and now it seems to be my only option from whatever page I happen to be on.
I realize I can type www.google.com and then search whatever I want, but I used to be able to type the search terms into the address bar and that worked fine. Why would they take away this function? Oh, yeah - to drive more traffic to Bing, right, to make it look better to advertisers?
Installing a different browser is not an option as this is my work PC and not my personal one.
Thanks for any advice.
It used to be that I would type anything into the address bar and it would search through Google. Now with this new version, it appears to be stuck on Bing no mattter what I do. Bing sucks! It seems to point to "where to buy" whatever I'm searching instead of "here's some info about" whatever I'm seaching as Google does. Things I used to search and find immediately with Google aren't even on the first page of Bing sometimes.
I've been all through the Internet Options, Manage Add-Ons, and everything else I can find but I can't seem to make this work like the old version of IE did. I did find out how to move Google above Bing on the list, but when I type something in, it still searches to Bing rather than Google. I can't seem to select which I want. The old version of IE would let me do that and even let me choose Wikipedia instead of Google if I wanted to. I never even saw Bing on the list with the old browser, and now it seems to be my only option from whatever page I happen to be on.
I realize I can type www.google.com and then search whatever I want, but I used to be able to type the search terms into the address bar and that worked fine. Why would they take away this function? Oh, yeah - to drive more traffic to Bing, right, to make it look better to advertisers?
Installing a different browser is not an option as this is my work PC and not my personal one.
Thanks for any advice.