Safari default search engine

[MikeFromMesa]

A couple of days ago I noticed that the Safari searches I was doing were using Yahoo and not Google as I thought I had set it up. I opened Preferences and saw that the dialog for Search was still set to Google but all of my searches were using Yahoo. The only way I can be sure that I will get a Google search is to browse directly to Google.com and use that page.

Why would Safari be using Yahoo when the Search dialog is set to Google?

 

[ferrarr]

You may have to reset Safari, Quit Safari (command+Q), don't just close the window. Then, hold "shift" and open Safari, it should clear it.

Also, what macOS & Safari version are you running?

 

[MacInWin]

And you might want to run malwarebytes. I've heard before about Yahoo hijacking the search when certain malware gets in. I think malwarebytes fixed it, as I recall.

 

[MikeFromMesa]

You may have to reset Safari, Quit Safari (command+Q), don't just close the window. Then, hold "shift" and open Safari, it should clear it.

Also, what macOS & Safari version are you running?

High Sierra and Safari 12.0. I will try the reset now.

UPDATE:

Thanks, but that did not work.

 

[MikeFromMesa]

And you might want to run malwarebytes. I've heard before about Yahoo hijacking the search when certain malware gets in. I think malwarebytes fixed it, as I recall.

Yes. Thank you. I ran malwarebytes and removed the stuff it referenced, and I am now back to Google. I tried to give you a "thumbs up" but it would not let me. I guess I need to "spread the thumbs up around".

 

[IWT]

Mike. The trouble is that Jake is so darned good that he keeps getting the thoroughly deserved thumbs up and we all have to spread it around first before being allowed to honour him again.

 

[MikeFromMesa]

Mike. The trouble is that Jake is so darned good that he keeps getting the thoroughly deserved thumbs up and we all have to spread it around first before being allowed to honour him again.

Hmm. I wonder if there is some Nobel Prize for correct answers on this forum ...

 

[MacInWin]

Ignoble prize, maybe. I just happened to have an idea, and every once in a while I get it right. Something about even a blind squirrel finding a nut every once in a while.