Win 10: Use Cortana with Google, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo
10-01-2015, 04:17 AM
If you've been wanting to use Cortana but you hate that it only does Bing searches then I got two alternatives for you. Both involve some minimal downloading or none depending which applications you currently have in your system.
Method 1
Simply use the latest version of Firefox. Mozilla integrated a "capture" system allowing you to perform queries with your default search engine in mozilla.
Method 2
If you prefer using Chrome over Firefox, the same can be accomplished but it requires an 3rd party extension. Simply hop to the App Store and do a search for Chrometana. After enabling it, you will be able to select, Google, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo as your default search engine. If you would like more information on this then head over to http://chrometana.theo.li/ official website of the Chrometana extension. The extension works pretty similar to the way firefox handles the queries, with the difference that you will notice when the browser redirects from bing to your selected search engine.
Hopefully this would serve of some use.
Method 1
Simply use the latest version of Firefox. Mozilla integrated a "capture" system allowing you to perform queries with your default search engine in mozilla.
Method 2
If you prefer using Chrome over Firefox, the same can be accomplished but it requires an 3rd party extension. Simply hop to the App Store and do a search for Chrometana. After enabling it, you will be able to select, Google, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo as your default search engine. If you would like more information on this then head over to http://chrometana.theo.li/ official website of the Chrometana extension. The extension works pretty similar to the way firefox handles the queries, with the difference that you will notice when the browser redirects from bing to your selected search engine.
Hopefully this would serve of some use.
