How To: Choosing Google as Internet Explorer Search on WP8/Nokia Lumia 920/820
As nice as it is to use BING, (and Bing search integrated is actually quite decent if given the chance, to my surprise) I’m just in preference of the big G. On my WP7/WP7.5 device, I either used a google tile or surfcube in order to have google as my main search provider because you could not yet set what you wanted your search bar engine to be.
In WP8, there are several small changes which means, well you now can.
It’s just in
Settings>Advanced Settings>Default Search provider
Next time I’m typing in the URL search bar:
I’ve taken screenshots as I’m just waiting at uni and have no other phone to snap pictures of it. Not sure if it’s the 920 having a stronger antenna or the fact I’m on Orange now (EE on signal bar same as T-Mobile) but I actually have fast internet here at my second base hospital to send myself these screenshots.
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