Microsoft goes out of their way to deliberately and intentionally alienate and furstte users ( way d'go Microsoft) by not acknowleging Google as a search provider. What a despicable practice.
There is no direct.intutive way to add a Google as Search prvivder. But I know it can be done and I did stumble on some hit and miss approaches for my other machine.
But I am tired of this nonsence. How does one make Google the default serach provider??
RESOLVED
The only way I found to resolve this was OUTSIDE of IE9 or WIN 7 settings, and by going to : Make Google your Default Search Engine
Here is a nice tutorial for you:
Beginner: Add Google as Your Search Provider in Internet Explorer 9 - How-To Geek
Cheers!
edit: glad you could solve it yourself
Did make a tutorial for adding Google in IE 10 on the Win 8 forums, but it's also the same for IE9. All one needs to do is to enter "google" into the search field there on the add-on page.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...r-add-new.html
That may work for some , but it was certainly not that simple for me. It's one of the first things I tried.
See screen shot.
It simply did not accept, display or prompt for anythiing related to google
But nothing about Windows 7 suprises me anymore as I am resigned to the fact that I dont expect it to work. What a legacy!.
Thats the crux of the isse. If I am in front on my machine, using IE9, wanting to chagne a search provider in IE9, it should work out of the box. I should not have to jump to sevenforums.com to post the question and to find a link that works ( yes yours works and does the google one I found)
I FOUND THE PROBELM AS TO WHY GOOGLE IS SHOWING UP FOR SOME AND NOT FOR OTHERS.
Your defaults take you to Internet Explorer Gallery (US)
My defaults take me to Internet Explorer Gallery (CANADA)
Will Microsoft ever fix little annoyance like these?? Not in my lifetime.
I know what you mean, yes.
I did have a note box at the very beginning of my tutorial I posted, that says you might change the language location to get different results.I FOUND THE PROBELM AS TO WHY GOOGLE IS SHOWING UP FOR SOME AND NOT FOR OTHERS.
easy enough to change ca to us on the address bar once you know the trick.
Several months ago I wasted several hours of my life trying to get Google set as the default search provider in IE9 . Why so many people are so scared of change they stick with IE and all the restrictions it has instead of trying out the other Browsers is beyond me.
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