A hidden “Search Engine” setting was spotted in the latest beta version of the launcher. Like most other popular Android launchers, the Pixel Launcher.
Like most other popular Android launchers, the Pixel Launcher features a universal search function that can dig through your phone’s settings, apps, contacts, and online for results, all in one convenient place. The recently-launched Android 14 QPR 2 Beta 3 has a new version of said launcher and a pretty interesting hidden settings menu called “Search Engine”. Its description is pretty clear and straightforward – “Select the app you’ll use to search the web. This will affect search and content on your home screen.”
This is all conjecture at this point, but it seems like Pixel devices might soon be able to swap their system-level search engine from Google to something else like Bing or DuckDuckGo.
