How to set a default search engine in Chromium?

Question

I have just installed Chromium and am attempting to set the default search engine to a site of my choosing. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work.

Originally in the first category there were 4 engines, and now it occurs to me that I could have just changed the url of one of them and then set them as default. However, I already deleted them and can't find a way of restoring them.

Solution 1

I think you're confusing "Default search engine" with "Default search engines", which in all fairness is an easy mistake. The default search engines are those that come preinstalled on Chromium. From your question ("how to set"), I'm assuming you just want to change what search engine is used when you type something in the bar on top and hit enter. To do that,

1. Make a random search with your desired search engine and copy the URL
2. Click "ADD" and paste the URL, replacing the random search terms with %s
3. Click the three dots and click "Make default"

Solution 2

In Chromium the words 'Make Default' is greyed out so one cant change the default search engine to Google. A work around is to make your home page google.com . This way, one can just open a new Tab to do Google search.

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