Plenty of questions on this and most seem to refer to older versions of Windows and/or Edge.
Using Windows 11 and Edge Version 107.0.1418.42 (Official build) (64-bit), both up to date.
As soon as I attempt to type in the search bar, a "Trending now" drop-down appears.
I've got everything turned off that anyone has ever suggested but I can't get rid of it as shown below.
After months of hoping someone would come up with an answer, I believe I found it. Under the Edge Settings, follow Privacy, search, and services, scroll to the bottom, select Address bar and search, select Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar, choose Address bar. DONE!
UPDATE: Right after posting this, I discovered on another Windows 11 machine that you can achieve the above on any other search engine as the default except Bing, but if you stick with the Search box (Recommended) on those other search engines, this will bring back the Bing Trending nonsense. Hope what I have discovered helps... a little.
What a pain, this isn't the only area I am dissatisfied with. Microsoft get your feces together and stop infecting what has been a good product, more or new is not necessarily better.
