Hey mehmet, I just tried this on 73.0.3629.0 on Mac 10.13.6 as well as Windows 10, and it worked fine on both.

Are you able to reproduce this on multiple systems / profiles?

Interesting... I can't repro in a new Chrome Canary Profile. 

A screencast is attached: current vs new Profile

Looks like my current profile is corrupted?! Shall we close this report then or do we want to investigate further?

Thanks in advance.

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dpapad / pkasting / orinj:

Have either you ever seen a Profile in a bad state where new search engines are not auto-added to the "Other search engines" list as the user browses?

I think there are policy settings around this one, maybe check the profile's policies?

@tommycli: I have not encountered such a case.

Is visiting the site enough, or do you have to actually do a search from the site and see its results page?  I thought it was the latter.

re#6: Can I check the policies in Chrome Settings?

re#8: Indeed, the other Search Engine suggestions were added after I did a search on the page. It works for ebay.com and duckduckgo.com. But it doesn't worked for wikipedia.org and youtube.com

The strange thing is, that in Chrome Stable other Search Engine suggestions are added just after visiting the page without doing any search. Has been the behavior changed from Chrome 70 to Chrome 72 in this area? 

Thanks for your help :)

I'm not familiar with the logic that picks up new alternative search engines, but in my experience it has always been required that a search & results process occur before Chrome can detect the alt engine.  If that is no longer required, it's a new bit of magic as far as I know.

My expectation is that it's added before you even perform a query.

I'm not aware of any changes to that behavior recently.

There are two ways to get search engines auto-added.  One is through an opensearch configuration file delivered from a web page; the other is by Chrome recognizing something that looks like a search form and then a successful form submittal (i.e., to the search results page).  The latter requires a search; the former does not.

The behavior in Chrome should not have changed recently.  It's possible that web sites have changed their configuration.

> but in my experience it has always been required that a search & results process occur before Chrome can detect the alt engine.

I don't think this has been the case (at least for as long as I remember). Also note that this is partially related to https://crbug.com/750534.

FWIW, see screencast confirming that searching is not necessary for a search engine to be added.

Should we close this bug, since per #4 can no longer repro?

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Agreed with c#13. Let's close for now.

This I would say is a P3 type of bug, and as long as we can't reproduce it (or it could be local profile corruption), it's not actionable for us.

If we can reproduce it on our side with a fresh Profile, we should re-open and fix it.

Okay, thanks to you all for your time and feedback.