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Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic c

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I suggest NOT doing this. Either sit tight until we fix, or if you do create a different entry, KEEP THE ORIGINAL so you can switch back once the fix is out. --Peter Kasting, Chrome team member and owner of the Omnibox

Detrus 14y ago
Oh oops. Deleted the original, will need a fix for that too.
- sjm 14y ago
  From the Chromium issue: "You can recreate the default entry by deleting your "Web Data" file out of your profile and restarting. Note that this will completely reset all your search engines."
  - Detrus 14y ago
    That did it. Only it kept my custom Google engine and added the old one back, which I had to make default.
kevinburke 14y ago
Thanks - can you recommend a workaround for the moment?
- sjm 14y ago
  Create an alternate Google Search using something like https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s and leave the old one there. You can set the new one as default for the time being and revert to the original afterwards.
skrebbel 14y ago
Thanks for your openness. I must admit to being slightly amazed that Google would add an irreversible-delete-button to a consumer facing app, without appropriate warnings and whatnot. Is that just an oversight, or is it by design?
- charliesome 14y ago
  You must be the only person still amazed by shitty Google UX
  - tadfisher 14y ago
    Helpful, informative, and grammatically correct! Would read again!
- mayanksinghal 14y ago
  If there were, and not for other search engines; we would have been complaining about Google being anti-competitive :)
- pkasting 14y ago
  We don't allow you to delete your current default engine, but we do allow you to delete other engines, because you should be able to get rid of things you don't want. We used to have a "restore all settings" button that would fix this (among other things), but it disappeared in the preferences UI rewrite and though I've agitated for it to come back, it hasn't.
jervisfm 14y ago
Peter, can you give some guidance for those among us who accidentally removed the Google entry? Is it there a workaround we can follow to restore it? Thanks.
UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
That sounds anti-competitive. So is there a reason other search providers aren't being allowed the opportunity to support this functionality?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  It does, especially since I think IE and possibly Firefox allow other search providers to do this.
- jrockway 14y ago
  As far as I know, they are. When I type "en.wikipedia.org" and hit tab, I get auto-completions for Wikipedia content. Same for Bing.
  - napillo 14y ago
    It doesn't work. Google Instant fails to work even after I added the suggested fix... {google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldTrialParameter}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
- pkasting 14y ago
  Other engines can access this functionality just fine (and do, as other people have mentioned). We simply don't have UI for you to manually tweak the relevant settings. (There's a bug on adding such UI, but it's low-priority, so no one's gotten to it.)
nnethercote 14y ago
LOL. Somehow I'm not surprised that Chrome has an aneurysm if you delete the Google search entry.
- jrockway 14y ago
  Chrome itself is fine. There just isn't a UI item to add it back.
sp332 14y ago
It's not completely irreversible, but the fix involves deleting your other search engines. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679#c40 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679#c4...

Detrus 14y ago

Oh oops. Deleted the original, will need a fix for that too.

sjm 14y ago
From the Chromium issue: "You can recreate the default entry by deleting your "Web Data" file out of your profile and restarting. Note that this will completely reset all your search engines."
- Detrus 14y ago
  That did it. Only it kept my custom Google engine and added the old one back, which I had to make default.

kevinburke 14y ago

Thanks - can you recommend a workaround for the moment?

sjm 14y ago
Create an alternate Google Search using something like https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s and leave the old one there. You can set the new one as default for the time being and revert to the original afterwards.

skrebbel 14y ago

Thanks for your openness. I must admit to being slightly amazed that Google would add an irreversible-delete-button to a consumer facing app, without appropriate warnings and whatnot. Is that just an oversight, or is it by design?

charliesome 14y ago
You must be the only person still amazed by shitty Google UX
- tadfisher 14y ago
  Helpful, informative, and grammatically correct! Would read again!
mayanksinghal 14y ago
If there were, and not for other search engines; we would have been complaining about Google being anti-competitive :)
pkasting 14y ago
We don't allow you to delete your current default engine, but we do allow you to delete other engines, because you should be able to get rid of things you don't want. We used to have a "restore all settings" button that would fix this (among other things), but it disappeared in the preferences UI rewrite and though I've agitated for it to come back, it hasn't.

jervisfm 14y ago

Peter, can you give some guidance for those among us who accidentally removed the Google entry? Is it there a workaround we can follow to restore it? Thanks.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago

That sounds anti-competitive. So is there a reason other search providers aren't being allowed the opportunity to support this functionality?

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
It does, especially since I think IE and possibly Firefox allow other search providers to do this.
jrockway 14y ago
As far as I know, they are. When I type "en.wikipedia.org" and hit tab, I get auto-completions for Wikipedia content. Same for Bing.
- napillo 14y ago
  It doesn't work. Google Instant fails to work even after I added the suggested fix... {google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldTrialParameter}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
pkasting 14y ago
Other engines can access this functionality just fine (and do, as other people have mentioned). We simply don't have UI for you to manually tweak the relevant settings. (There's a bug on adding such UI, but it's low-priority, so no one's gotten to it.)

nnethercote 14y ago

LOL. Somehow I'm not surprised that Chrome has an aneurysm if you delete the Google search entry.

jrockway 14y ago
Chrome itself is fine. There just isn't a UI item to add it back.

sp332 14y ago

It's not completely irreversible, but the fix involves deleting your other search engines. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679#c40 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679#c4...