Hi Jim,

You need to change your default search engine from Bing to Google.  There 
are various steps below.  It might be a little on tough side, but it is 
doable:

From: Carlos
Go to the Internet Explorer Gallery
http://www.iegallery.com/en-us/addons?callback=true&featuretype=2
and add a new search provider like Google for example.  There's a link
labeled "Add to Internet Explorer" on the page after you select a search
provider.  When you click on this link, check the "Make this my default
search provider" checkbox.
Carlos

From: Grant Hardy
Yes--if you hit ALT+T for the Tools menu while in IE 10 and choose
"Manage add-ons", you'll find a radio button for Search Providers.
Select this radio button and then TAB until you hear "find more search
providers". Activate this link and you'll be taken to the Internet
Explorer gallery where you can find and add other search providers to
IE including Google. To add the Google search provider, activate the
Google link to bring up the information page and then choose Add to
internet explorer. You'll be prompted as to whether you want to make
this the default search provider.
Grant
From: Roger Loran Bailey

 Because of this thread and Gene's comments I just did something that I did 
not know how to do and didn't even know that I wanted to do until now. I 
changed my own default search engine in Internet Explorer to Google. My 
default search engine has been Bing ever since I got this Windows 7 
computer, but I prefer Google. I handled the problem by just ignoring Bing 
and making Google my home page. Because of this discussion I decided to 
check to see if I could change the default search. I went to tools and then 
to manage add ons. I then arrowed down until I saw search engines. I tabbed 
and found Bing checked as default. By arrowing up and down I saw that there 
were other search engines and Google was not one of them. So I continued to 
tab until I found a link labeled "search for other search engines." I 
clicked that link and came to a Microsoft page about add ons and at first I 
didn't think it had anything to do with search engines, but down the page 
there was a link to search engines which I clicked. I then got a list of 
search results and again Google was not one of them. Apparently Microsoft 
wants to make it hard for you to use Google. In exasperation I pressed the E 
key to go to the only edit field on the page and typed in Google. Again I 
got a list of search results, but this time the first one on the list was 
Google search. There was a link right after it for adding it to Internet 
Explorer. I clicked it again and there was a page listing some things about 
Google. By this time I was getting tired of the hoops I was jumping through, 
so I didn't read that material very closely and now I can't really tell you 
what it said, but at the very bottom there was another link offering to add 
Google to Internet Explorer. I clicked it again and a dialog came up. 
Tabbing through it there were several check boxes to either check or not to 
check and one of them was to make Google my default search engine. I did 
check that and went through the rest of the dialog and click finish or save 
or whatever it said at the end. I then just closed the browser and opened it 
up again. I don't know if that was necessary, but that is how I did it. Then 
I check by pressing f6 for the address bar and, indeed, it showed Google. I 
typed in a word off the top of my head and pressed enter and I got a list of 
Google search results. So there is how to make Google your default search 
engine in Internet Explorer. I would have done this a long time ago if I had 
thought of it or even known where to look.
Roger

Take care.
Mike
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jim Slagle
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 3:35 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] How make the search box use Google, not Bing?


Hi,
I use Jaws 18 and IE.
Jim Slagle

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