Apple Mail word search taken over by Bing??

I now have an OS X Mountain Lion 10.9 and when I'm typing a note in Apple Mail and have to do a word lookup on my Snow Leopard it use to say "Search with Google" which is where I have my homepage set on Safari. Now, when I have to do a word lookup in Apple Mail it say: "Search with Bing." How did Bing manage to take over my machine. I have never used Bing. So what's the story. Pretty sneaky business that. So what are these blighter's doing?

Cheers!

Go to Safari > Preferences > General > Default search engine > Google. That should do it.

vansmith said:

Go to Safari > Preferences > General > Default search engine > Google. That should do it.

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Safari has always been set to Google as a default search engine. So that's not the problem. Strange stuff going on here. Bing! Bah!!

What 3rd party freeware have you installed recently and from where?


Geneio and InstallMac will exhibit this behavior - almost always packaged with some piece of freeware - from softonic or download.com or some site offering a "free" pdf viewer or an update to a video viewer - even the default install of DivX.

See this thread.