Google Chrome browser will provide "choose search engine" tips to users of the European Union and the European Economic area

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, December 10 (Xinhua)-- Google Chrome browser will launch a feature for users in the European Union and the European Economic area early next year: when users launch the browser, a window will appear on the screen to guide users to choose their default search engine.

Google provides a list of search engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo and duckduckgo, which are relatively familiar to local users, as well as relatively "niche" Brave Search, Yep and so on.

Currently, this feature is in the state of testing and is only available to the Chrome Canary version. An enabling tutorial is attached to CTOnews.com:

Enter chrome://flags/#enable-search-engine-choice in the address bar of the Chrome browser.

Set its status to "on and forcibly set to the European Economic area".

Restart the Chrome browser.

Google is not the only company that needs to adjust accordingly in Europe. According to previous reports from CTOnews.com, Microsoft has also adjusted its Win11 system for EEA users in order to meet the relevant provisions of the Digital Market Law. EU users can uninstall most pre-installed applications such as Edge and Bing, and disable recommendation and advertising content.

EEA (European Economic area) includes the following countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. There are 30 countries in the EEA region.