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Vivaldi for Android: Change Default Search Engine

Vivaldi for Android: Change Default Search Engine

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Mel Hawthorne Leave a Comment

There are a huge number of browser apps available on Android. Almost all of them include a default search engine that is used when you type something other than a URL in the search bar. This feature is a nice time saver, it means that you don’t have to first browse to Google to search for something.

Still, not everyone wants to use Google. For many users, this will be because of Google’s practice of tracking and analysing as much user data as possible and then using it to serve targeted advertisements. To try and accommodate this, a number of browsers configure a different search engine as the default. This then irritates the users that did actually want to use Google.

Thankfully, most browsers offer the ability to change the default search engine that they use. The Vivaldi browser on Android defaults to using Microsoft’s Bing but gives you a strong selection of seven search engines to choose from.

To configure your search engine in Vivaldi, open the app, then tap the Vivaldi icon in the top-right, next to the search bar.

In the Vivaldi browser, tap the Vivaldi icon in the top-right.

From the drop-down menu, tap “Settings” to open Vivaldi’s settings list.

Tap on “Settings” to configure Vivaldi’s settings.

In Vivaldi’s settings, tap “Search engine” which should be the second entry down.

Tap “Search engine” to configure which search engine Vivaldi should use.

There are seven search engines for you to choose between; Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage, Wikipedia, and Google. To select a search engine, simply tap the title of the one you want to use.

There are seven search engines to choose from, tap one from the list to configure it as your default.

What search engines can you use?

Bing is Microsoft’s search engine, both it and Yahoo directly compete with Google in the search engine market with similar products. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that doesn’t use preferences inferred from analytics to filter or prioritise certain search results.

Ecosia uses more than 80% of the profits from its advertising revenue to fund reforestation projects, making it a carbon-negative company. Startpage is a privacy-focussed search engine that doesn’t perform any tracking or filter your search results.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia rather than a search engine, however, some users may find this option useful too.

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