Some time back...maybe a couple months or a few...all my searches began running through a Bing interface. I'm hot happy with the change. Bing tends to prioritize search results for me, with lots of junk, paid ads coming up first and very few results on the first page. What has happened and how can I undo it and move on with Safari searches? Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), brand spanking new
Change your preferences to Google.
my Safari prefs seem very limited and i don't know where to find such a pref. Can you help?
Settings->safari->search engine
On my machine (OS X 10.7.3, Safari 5.1.5)
Open Safari
From the menubar, select Safari, then Preferences
Click on the General icon at the top of the Preferences window, then select the defult search engine.
Good luck
srb
Thanks for your response. My preferences are found where you suggested but they were already set to Google. So, no change: Bing still comes up.
Searching a bit online, I noticed what seemed to be a source for Bing, that is it serves as a Microsoft advertising (dis)service (choose your position).
No luck finding any solution to this yet. J
Thanks for responding. I did not find this menu option you suggest. Rather I find Safari/Preferences then General button, then Default search engine, such as Google, for example; but that was already selected. No luck here either. J
Bing Highlights is close to being malware and is extremely difficult to get rid of.
You need to search their forum for a solution or contact them directly:
http://www.bing.com/community/webmaster/f/12248/t/666633.aspx
Perhaps someone on this site knows how-to remove it. I'm afraid to 'sign up to create an account' just to post a comment on their forum site.
Let me note also that I have (like a disease) Bing beta, which I take is a European release.
It seems to be connected to hotmail and it may be burried in thier preferences, so I will explore there too and invite others more capable than I to do same...please! 🙂
Does anyone think it may be the fault of the latest version upgrade of Safari (in bed wqith Bing)?
Thanks
I'm having the very same problem. My preferences are set to Google but Bing will not go away. Please let me know if you find a solution - this is driving me crazy. And, I'll let you know if I learn anything.
Hello Buckeyegrl,
I've found out how!
I guess I'm the only one in the world who uses Mac... That knows how to do it?
1. Click "Safari" by the Apple icon on the menu bar.
2. Click "Preferences".
3. Click "General" and select your default search engine, your homepage, and your tab settings. (All marked in red bellow in the image).
4. Click "Extensions".
5. Now you see a pop-up menu, click it and select "Default" (Marked in red in the image bellow).
5. Now try searching the web!
Did you understand all of this?
If not, just use my signature here to contact me...
-Abraham Girt
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AWESOME!!!! Thank you so much for posting this w/ picutres. I kept searching and it would go straight to bing even though google was selected in my default search engine. Once I changed the search engine to default under the extensions tab it worked!
Thank you sooooo much. 🙂
Thank you for the update. Keep in touch!
Worked perfectly!!!!! Thank you
Perfect! Thanks for the suggestion!
I am experiencing the same issue as of this morning. My safari search engine is set to google, but safari always takes me to bing.
Why do my Safari searches go through Bing?
