{"id":90975,"date":"2016-04-29T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90975"},"modified":"2016-04-29T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:14:33","slug":"windows-10-kills-cortana-googling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/90975-windows-10-kills-cortana-googling","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 kills Cortana Googling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 users can no longer use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/28\/11532474\/windows-10-block-google-search-cortana-bing-edge\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cortana<\/strong> <\/a>for Google search functions.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2016\/04\/28\/delivering-personalized-search-experiences-in-windows-10-through-cortana\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Windows<\/strong><\/a> blog that\u00a0users will no longer be able\u00a0to perform third-party searches through the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/12\/10\/9884750\/microsoft-windows-10-cortana-redstone-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Cortana digital assistant.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cancellation of Cortana follows <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/226638\/make-the-windows-10-start-menu-and-cortana-search-google-instead-of-bing\/\">a number of recent workarounds<\/a><\/strong>, which allowed users to edit their registries and install browser plugins in order to make Google the default engine for Cortana searches instead of Bing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Starting today, to ensure we can deliver the integrated search experience designed for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge will be the only browser that will launch when you search from the Cortana box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t continue to use whatever search engine you like &#8211; only that Microsoft is clearly trying to keep Windows apps from interfacing with\u00a0Google Search.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Jolie to Vikander: 20 years of Lara Croft actresses,games and photos\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90847-jolie-to-vikander-20-years-of-lara-croft-actressesgames-and-photos.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jolie to Vikander: 20 years of Lara Croft actresses,games and photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Popular Twitch Streamer banned for accidentally exposing herself\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90819-popular-twitch-streamer-banned-for-accidentally-exposing-herself.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Popular Twitch Streamer banned for accidentally exposing herself<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cutting-edge AOC gaming monitors here soon\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/87959-cutting-edge-aoc-gaming-monitors-here-soon.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cutting-edge AOC gaming monitors here soon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 users can no longer use Cortana for Google search functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":90977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,18371,307,18373,2791],"class_list":["post-90975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-cortana","tag-halo","tag-search","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90989,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975\/revisions\/90989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}