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No, most people will use whatever the default is. The vast majority of search is for a few popular queries: facebook.com, wikipedia article, current event, celebrity, product etc. This isn't the 90s anymore where search engines were terrible and google was a big step up. Even among power users, the difference is not that clear.

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Is that true for Bing? Do most Windows users the default Edge and leave default search on Bing?

Google spends a lot of money on ads to get you off edge, and users are pretty much conditioned to ignore MS defaults.

Before Chrome existed it was pretty common for people to suggest downloading FF out of hand. So the habit has existed for years, on top of the ad campaigns that Google runs for chrome.

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