Bing takes over search

[jobe1980]

jobe1980 last edited by

Can anyone help me been looking for weeks everytime I type "b" the search is always taken over by bing example in the address bar I type b and m stores instead looking bing suggestion will pop up to look for and m stores by pressing the b ..bing takes over and its driving me nuts and need it to stop

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @jobe1980 last edited by

@jobe1980 b is the keyword for Bing. If you don't want to use Bing you'll need to quote the search text or maybe add a space before the b.

[newworldman]

newworldman @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse adding a space before the b doesn't work. Quoting, or just a leading quote is fine. Also b&m.

[jobe1980]

jobe1980 @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse Thankyou guessing is no way to stop that happening then doesnt happen in chrome just in opera

[newworldman]

newworldman @jobe1980 last edited by

@jobe1980 you can customise keyboard shortcuts in Opera but it doesn't look like you can for the listed search engines. But you can do so with the similar feature in Vivaldi.

I did notice in the Opera settings that there was an option to use tab instead of space after the b. But when I tried that it didn't work, i.e., b + space still invoked Bing.

[alobpreis]

alobpreis last edited by

I have a custom search for IMDB using "i", so when I need to search for something that starts with "i", I just add a "g" before to manually indicate I want to use Google. For example, "g i want to break free". So in your case, just typing "g b and m" should do the trick.

I think in the past we were able to change these shortcuts or even delete them, but now I see they are static.