I accidentally deleted Google's default search engine and now the only default engine left is Yahoo.
I have tried manually adding it back using the code found here: How to restore the default Google search engine in Chrome?
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:bookmarkBarPinned}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:instantExtendedEnabledParameter}{google:omniboxStartMarginParameter}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}
I have also deleted he text that starts with "default_search_provider_data":{ and ends with } in Secure Preferences file, but the default is still Yahoo!
Lastly, I even made a registry file that forces it to default: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome] "DefaultSearchProviderEnabled"=dword:00000001 "DefaultSearchProviderName"="Google" "DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL"="https://www.google.com/" "DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL"="https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}" "DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL"="https://www.google.com/complete/search?output=chrome&q={searchTerms}"
and it still defaults to Yahoo!
I cannot just reset my Chrome settings because that will erase the years of work I did to customize my search engines (it has at least 500 custom search shortcuts and there's no easy way to export/import them)
Any help please?
