Google is undoubtedly the most popular search engine on the planet. If you are internet savvy then you might have to Google multiple times a day. Things can be very irritating if you have to open the web browser again and again just to use Google. Fortunately, it is very easy to create a Google icon on a desktop. This will help you access the search engine easily directly through your desktop.

In this post, we are going to show you how to put the google icon on desktop in windows 10 and other operating systems using Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browser. It is not good news for those who are wondering how to put Google search on desktop using Microsoft Edge because it is not possible.

What are the steps to put Google on desktop windows 7?

No matter you are using Windows 7 or any later operating system then you should follow the steps mentioned below.

· First of all, you need to open a web browser on your computer. Here, you can use any of the following browsers – Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet explorer. Please note that here you should not use Microsoft edge.

· It is highly possible that your browser might have opened in full-screen mode. It is advised that you should restore the browser window down. To do that, you just need to click on the icon available at the top-right corner of the window (Windows). Those who are using a Mac device should click on the green-circle in the top-left corner.

· After restoring down the size of your browser’s window, you must be able to see some of your desktops.

· Next, you should type the “google.com” address into the browser’s URL available at the top of the screen.

· Now, tap on the “Enter” or “Return” button. This will take you to the Google search engine page.

· In the next step, you must highlight the URL of Google (https://www.google.com) appearing at the top. To highlight the URL you may click it once or manually highlight the same by dragging your mouse to the other side until the whole website's address is highlighted.

· Finally, you just need to drag the highlighted URL to your desktop. You don’t have to do anything special in order to so you just have to drag the URL like a file to your desktop and release the button of your mouse. This will place an icon on your desktop that will open Google.com in your web browser.

· Those who are using Safari or Internet Explorer need to click and drag the Google icon that is appearing on the left-hand side of the URL instead.

· If you are a mac user then you can place the shortcut on your dock by dragging the same onto the dock. Just wait for the space to appear and then release the icon.

Useful Tips and Information

· By the above-mentioned procedure, you might understand how to put google search icon on desktop. The good is that the above steps will also work for all other web pages on the Internet. To create a shortcut of any web page, all you need to do is right-click on the blank space and choose the “Save” option. Then, save the icon to the desktop of your window/ mac computer.

Note: You don’t have to highlight the URL in case you are using Safari or Internet Explorer.

How to put Google Chrome search bar on Desktop?

Before we dive into the steps to add the Google Chrome icon to your desktop, you need to make sure that the same is installed on your PC. In case you are unsure if there is Google Chrome installed on your computer or not then you can verify the same through the following steps.

On a Windows Computer

· First of all, you need to go to the top-left corner of your screen. Here, you will find a search bar with the name “Type here to search”.

· In the search bar, you should type in “Google Chrome”.

· In case you have Google chrome installed the app will appear. If you don’t have it installed you won’t see the application.

· Those who don’t have it installed need to download and install the same from the Internet.

On a Mac Device

· To begin the process, you should open “Finder”.

· Then, go to the “Applications” folder appearing on the left side of the Window.

· Scroll down the folder and locate Google chrome. If you can’t find Google chrome in the application folder then you are required to download the same.

Steps to add Google Chrome search bar on Desktop

Given below are the steps that you can follow in order to add the Google Chrome icon to your desktop.

· First of all, you need to go to your desktop. Then, click on the windows icon available at the bottom left corner of the screen. At the same time, you need to be sure to close all other windows beforehand. Open windows will prevent you from putting an icon on your desktop.

· Scroll down and locate Google Chrome.

· Next, click on the icon and drag the same on to your desktop.

· You can now see the Google icon on your desktop.

**Tip – Another simple way to access Google Chrome is to pin the icon to your taskbar available at the bottom of the screen. To do that, you just have to right-click on the icon and choose “Pin to taskbar”,

How to put Google chrome icon on desktop mac?

If you are using a mac device and wondering how to get the google chrome icon back on desktop then you just have to follow the steps given below. Before following the steps, you should make sure that you have Google Chrome installed on your device.

· First of all, you need to go to your desktop and open “Finder”. At the same time, you should close all other open windows. An open window can stop you from adding an icon to your mac desktop.

· Then, choose the “Applications” folder available on the left side of the window.

· After that, you have to locate the Google Chrome icon.

· Click and drag the icon to your mac desktop.

Now, you’ll see the Google Chrome icon appearing on your desktop. Another quick way to access Google Chrome on the go through your mac device is to add an icon to your dock. Doing this is very easy, all you have to do is to click and drag the icon to its position on your dock.