How to Disable Bing Web Results in Windows 10's Search

Smart Cortana digital assistant is easily one of windows 10's standout features, but the operating system's search function behaves in an incredibly annoying way by default.

Disable Bing Web Results in Windows 10 Search

Whenever you search for something that doesn't directly match a system settings or installed application. Cortana taps into bing and brings up a list of web results automatically than clean up your local drive for relevant files. Conducting a local search requires an extra click of the my stuff button in the search results.

There is no way to force the search result to show your my stuff files first. you don't just like the data of each and every search result you run being beamed to Microsoft's servers.

Turn Off Search From Web

There's way to disable Bing and force the search bar to display local searches from the system before web searches. But it requires a earth approach to windows 10 connected capacity.

Open Cortana/search interface, now click on the notebook icon and select settings. Here simply move the Cortana can give you suggestions, ideas, reminders, alarms and more and more slider to off to disable here. Note that in doing so, Microsoft still  stores the personal info Microsoft has stored it it, check out our guide to kill the Cortana.

But we are not done yet! Once Cortana's silenced, open the search interface again and select the settings includes both local and OneDrive files when you click on my stuff.

Boom that's it. Any searches you conduct will now search only your local files through  not your One Drive stored files, unfortunately.

If you want a way to search your local files quickly without killing the cortana, consider installing the superb Everything search engine program and pinning it to your taskbar for easy access. Then you can use everything to conduct lightning fast local files searches and cortana for everything else.