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Question by Hotspot:
Making Google my default search engine? Problems.
I have a wierd, local webpage as my default search engine. When I type in question, it takes me there automatically and is pretty useless for answering anything. I am used to Google, and I tried to find directions on how to make it my defaulted search engine, but even though I foloowed the directions, nothing works. I still keep getting my weird page.

Here are the instructions – I tried both of them, and neither one of them works:

Run regedit from your run menu and find this key :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

and find Search Page value and change it to google like this :
“Search Page”=”http://www.google.com”
“Search Bar”=”http://www.google.com/ie”

I do not want a search bar, so I just put in the searcha page value, restarted it, and nothing changed.

Then I tried these directions, but nothing showed up like it stated it would. (at http://www.google.com/options/defaults.html):

Internet Explorer

For Windows: Download this file to make Google the default search engine for World wide web Explorer versions 4.0 – 6.0. (Note: you will need Administrator privileges on your personal in order to install this file.)

The “search” button will bring up a Google search box down the left side of your browser.

The “Search The Web” menu option from the “Go” menu will take you to Google. For IE4 only, you can type “?