Safari redirects to Google

lketelaar wrote:

Preference setting for "Safari" as default browser has been completed several times. Safari will launch Safari browser, but when a typed item is entered in the search box, browser screen changes to "GOOGLE" to deliver search results. This is a recent development that I can't seem to change. Thanks.

Safari is a browser, an app. There is no Safari search engine. When you do a search in Safari, you need to use some search engine. If you don't want to use Google as your default search engine, pick another one in Settings>Safari>Search Engine.

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Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, lketelaar.

If we understand your post correctly, when you open Safari and search for something Safari automatically uses Google search engine. We’d like to help.

We see you were viewing "Update or reinstall Safari for your computer" and it did not resolve your issue.

You can select the search engine you'd prefer by following the steps in this article:

Change Search preferences in Safari on Mac

Let us know if that resolves this issue for you.

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