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Safari keeps going to Yahoo search engine instead of Google search

Since the past few days, whenever I open Safari, the search engine that opens up is yahoo search instead of the default Google search that I have set in the preferences. I am unable to get this moved to Google search.

Please help.

Posted on Sep 4, 2020 12:12 AM

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Posted on Sep 7, 2020 5:00 AM

An extension might have somehow been installed in Safari on your Mac that is redirecting you to yahoo. 

Look in Safari preferences > Extensions. If you see a search file in there you didn’t install, delete it. Then empty trash

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Safari keeps going to Yahoo search engine instead of Google search

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