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Android browsers come with a specific search engine set as their default. Google Search is the most popular on most of these browsers. Its convenient for most people but what if you want to switch to a different search engine?

Changing your default search engine on any browser is easy. In this guide, well show you how to change your default search engine in the most popular Android browsers.

Chromes default search engine is Google Search which also happens to be the biggest search engine on the internet. However, there are many other search engines with fewer privacy concerns than Google.

To change your default search engine on Chrome, follow these steps:

Samsung Internet is the default browser on Galaxy smartphones. Its default search engine is Google Search. Heres how to change to a different search engine on Samsung Internet:

One of the best things about the Firefox browser on Android is that you can manually add the search engine of your choice if its absent from the available options. Heres how to switch your default search engine in Firefox:

Brave is a privacy-focused browser and uses its own proprietary search engine. The problem with most non-Google search engines is their unreliability when it comes to finding some types of information. If you want to switch back to Google Search or any other search engine on Brave, follow these steps:

Being from Microsoft, Edges default search engine is Bing. If you want to change to Google Search or a privacy-focused search engine like DuckDuckGo, heres how to go about it:

Opera comes with Google Search as its default search engine. You can change the default search engine to any of the following options that Opera offers if you want to: Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage, Amazon, eBay, or Wikipedia. Follow these steps:

Opera Mini is a lightweight mobile version of Opera Browser you can use if your device has any network or performance issues. Unfortunately, you must contend with Google and Wikipedia as the only available default search engine options in Opera Mini. To switch to Wikipedia, tap the search engine icon on the left of the URL bar and select Wikipedia.

To use any other search engine you can either enter it manually in the URL bar or add it to Opera Minis Speed Dial on the homepage.

To do this:

UC Browser comes with eight default search engine options. Switching from one to the other is easy:

Most browsers on Android will let you switch your default search engine but with limited options. Firefox would be the best in this department because it lets you enter your own custom search engine in case you miss it from the provided options. Samsung Internet has the most default search engine options.

Some specialist browsers like the popular privacy-focused DuckDuckGo will restrict you to one search engine. In this case, you can only use DuckDuckGos proprietary search engine if its your main browser.

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