Default search provider search URL

Specifies the URL of the search engine used for a default search. The URL contains the string '{searchTerms}', which is replaced at query time by the terms the user is searching for.

Specify Bing's search URL as:

'{bing:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}'.

Specify Google's search URL as: '{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}'.

This policy is required when you enable the 'DefaultSearchProviderEnabled' (Enable the default search provider) policy; if you don't enable the latter policy, this policy is ignored.

Starting in Microsoft Edge 84, you can set this policy as a recommended policy. If the user has already set a default search provider, the default search provider configured by this recommended policy will not be added to the list of search providers the user can choose from. If this is the desired behavior, use the 'ManagedSearchEngines' (Manage Search Engines) policy.

Example value: https://search.contoso.com/search?q={searchTerms}

Default search provider search URL

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
Value Name	DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value