Description
We have way too many defaults, and only one is mandatory in most regions by user acclamation (Google), with two others partnered and sharing revenue with Brave (DuckDuckGo and Qwant).
Most of the rest are not general search engines. Also important from a user-first point of view: we allow users to customize default address bar search to use any engine that conforms to OpenSearch where we are based on chromium code. So fans of rarely used engines can (until we get commercial deals) suit themselves.
Therefore, after letting 1000 flowers bloom in early 2016 when my head of product Elissa and I were in an expansive mood, we should now mow the field.
Current "Default search engines": Google, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Amazon, Bing, Ecosia, GitHub, Infogalactic, MDN Web Docs, searx, Semantic Scholar, Stack Overflow, StartPage, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Yahoo!, Yandex, YouTube
Proposed new list: Google, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, and Bing (prospective). Any others that provide OpenSearch XML can be added by our users now, thanks to chromium support for OpenSearch.
This bug needs to be mirrored in the iOS and Android repos.