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Stuck on setting search engine in chrome

My last agency did this for us and now i have to set search engine in chrome myself. It's a fairly typical small business site, so nothing enormous. What's the step i'm getting wrong? Cheers.
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manish_66 Oct 29, 2026
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If the reset doesn't stick either, type chrome://policy into the address bar. On your own computer that page should be pretty much empty - if it lists a search provider policy, something installed it, and chrome will keep obeying it until it's removed. On a mac also look in System Settings for a profile you don't recognise (search "profiles"). Deleting that is usually the actual fix, the extension was just a symptom.
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ajay_21 Oct 08, 2026
david_26
Stuck how - you can't find the setting, or you change it and it flips back? If it flips back, it's almost always an extension. Disable them all, set the search engine again, then turn them back on one at a time to find the culprit. If that doesn't do it, Settings > Reset settings > Restore settings to their original defaults. It keeps your bookmarks and passwords but clears the search engine, startup pages and extensions' changes.
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