windows update made cortana stop using bing

Hi,

Does the issue occur before or it is the first time to use Cortana for searching?

What's your system build? Please run "winver" to check the details number.

We have a little confuse with your existing issue, so 2 scenarios below are assumed.

"I can't even get it to open google"

If you want to use Cortana search result show in Google engine instead of bing, I am afraid it would be not available unless with some third party software or extension as Cortana's cloud-based brains are powered by Bing.

"windows update made cortana stop using bing"

If your Cortana can't even search with bing, we could check if it works on a new created user account. Or we could register with the following command line in PowerShell. (Please run command as administrator.)

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

If we have misunderstood about your issue, please reply to us directly.

Bests,

Hello,

Please try these steps:

Open Registry Editor by running regedit command.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search.

Create/edit and set BingSearchEnabled and CortanaConsent registry DWORDs (REG_DWORD) to 0.

Close Registry Editor and reboot your system.

Note: It is recommended that you create a System Restore point before editing registry.

Hope this helps!