Yahoo to bing, can I stop this?

[Traab]

Every time I do a search through yahoo and click on a link in the results two things happen. One, it opens the link, two, just about every time it opens another tab to bing search results for the same issue. Is there any way to shut this down? Its freaking obnoxious.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Try this:

Open the Yahoo Menu (an icon with 9 dots on a 3x3 layout for me, you may get something different)

Select Settings (Gearbox symbol)

Under Preverences find: Open search results

This will probably be set to "In new tab" - change it to "In current tab"


If that doesn't work, go into your browser settings and see if it has any search engines set (Microsoft browsers will spray Bing everywhere) - where you find this depends on the browser you are using.

[Rogar Demonblud]

As a general guideline, it's a good idea to remove any search engines you don't use. Most of them are data miners these days, so they're constantly reporting on you to their corporate masters.

[Traab]

Try this:

Open the Yahoo Menu (an icon with 9 dots on a 3x3 layout for me, you may get something different)

Select Settings (Gearbox symbol)

Under Preverences find: Open search results

This will probably be set to "In new tab" - change it to "In current tab"


If that doesn't work, go into your browser settings and see if it has any search engines set (Microsoft browsers will spray Bing everywhere) - where you find this depends on the browser you are using.

Hmmmm, I think its specifically because its yahoo. It says its powered by bing so it looks like unless I want to go to a different search engine im always going to get bing because bing basically owns the yahoo search engine. Looks like I have to go to google or something if I want to avoid this annoyance. If I wanted to search through bing I WOULD BE ON THE BING SEARCH ENGINE!!!!!!! It wont let me stop no matter what I do. Im running Chrome btw

[Manga Shoggoth]

Unfortunately, I don't use Chrome (well, I do at work, but am on leave...). However I can't get it to happen in Firefox, Internet Explorer or Edge, so it might be a Chrome issue (although why it would target Bing defeats me - you would think they would go for Google...).

You are definitely checking the Yahoo settings and not the Chrome settings, aren't you? It can be confusing given the plethora of icons you have to deal with...

[veti]

As a general guideline, it's a good idea to remove any search engines you don't use. Most of them are data miners these days, so they're constantly reporting on you to their corporate masters.

If you have a search engine that's "installed" on your local device, you're doing it wrong.

[Manga Shoggoth]

If you have a search engine that's "installed" on your local device, you're doing it wrong.

The problem is that they are "installed" within the browser as well (or, at least, the browser settings say to use them). My default firefox installation alone had 8 search providers configured for use.

[veti]

The problem is that they are "installed" within the browser as well (or, at least, the browser settings say to use them). My default firefox installation alone had 8 search providers configured for use.

Sure, there's nothing wrong with that. Firefox has a "search" box, it needs to know what to do with stuff you type in there. That's no different from going to $WEBSITE and typing your search in there - which is to say, using it is completely optional, and it doesn't leak information when you're not using it.

It gets much greyer when "search from the address bar" is enabled. (Can't remember whether that's the default in Firefox. It certainly is in Chrome.) Because then, there's a decent chance that everything you type in the address bar will be sent to your configured search agent.

[Manga Shoggoth]

It gets much greyer when "search from the address bar" is enabled. (Can't remember whether that's the default in Firefox. It certainly is in Chrome.) Because then, there's a decent chance that everything you type in the address bar will be sent to your configured search agent.

I was going to mention "search from address bar", but thought no - let's keep it short. It's a feature I really dislike and I really didn't want to start on a rant...