Windows 10: Clicking the search bar redirects me to "My Feed". Why?

Right clicking the taskbar allows you to enable the search bar. Clicking on this search bar used to allow the user to look for programs on the computer or search the internet by typing something in. Now, clicking the search bar redirects to "my feed", which is incredibly useless and is not what I want to happen when I click on a search bar. There seems to be no ability to search my computer from there, so I have to navigate to my programs through my file explorer.

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Browser searches redirected

I'm seeing this problem on multiple computers; one at work and also my nephew's laptop. They will run a search in Google or whatever but when a link is clicked as a result of a search, whether it be to wikipedia or hotsneekylovin.com, the click is redirected to different sites, generally wanting you to buy some sort of merchandise. I've gone through cleanups, System Restores, and everything else I can think of without reinstalling to no avail because a feformat on the work comp would be like a 2 day process. Anyone had any success killing this?

 

Search Bar not displaying news feed...

I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new hard drive and the search bar used to display "Trending Now" popular news items - provided by bing.com - when I clicked on the search bar. With the latest Win10 Pro 15.11 update this feature has either been turned
off or disabled. There used to be three dots in the upper right hand corner of search for the popular news feed settings and this is even gone now.

Now the search is just an ugly blank white page which only states, "Search for: Apps, Settings, Files, Web". I liked the popular news items as opposed to this white page. Is it even possible to get the popular news feed back into the search bar? If so, how
can it be done?

 

HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.