Google Search Gone in Safari

I, too, have been pulling my hair out. What an irritating change to Safari!!! Apple, put the search window back! (There is a link early in this thread showing where to contact Apple. I have done so. Here it is again for gypsylousiane and others:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ )

Welcome to MICROAPPLE... this is the begining..

Get the Google toolbar extension. It's very handy.

And free.

http://www.bbshare.com

@paul4laffs:

THANK YOU for that suggestion. The Google toolbar is awesome.

Is this extension safe? I only ask because when I go to the Google site it says that Google Toolbar is not available for Safari.

Well I know I have it on my Mac with Safari. Don't know about safe, but it works and the. At has an icon link to almost everything they offer.

Just to add another vote to this thread. What they've done is technically clever, but ergonomically flawed. I want to see my current URL and search. Not have to click multiple times to work out where I am or what I'm looking for.

Please, at least put the option for a separate bar/ dual instance of the bar - back.

What idiot at Apple decided that Yahoo is somehow better than Google for a search engine? In reality, most searches will yield the same results, so it is how comfortable with the interface that a user feels is important. Maybe a lot of Safari users were using Yahoo as a default search engine, that's OK. If they were suddenly switched to Google they would not be pleased. Well, I'm not pleased that someone decided I should use Yahoo.

My preferences set up on the MacPro say Google is my default search engine; yet it is Yahoo that shows up. I'm just too familiar and comfortable with Yahoo to change...

Apple, you went and did a STUPID and childish thing, and you are not respecting the legions of Mac Users out there! Switch it back, for goodness sake!

Next time an update comes up, I'm NOT installing it....

Please return the search box.

The url bar does not search google, yahoo, or bing. We have received in our inquiries, fraudulent websites, inappropriate information and 404 type pages. The change is reflecting in a lower performance productivity in our company.

We hope you take the requests to restore the search box seriously.

Can't imagine anyone thiinking this was a good ideal....😠 will be using a different browser...😎 till you resolve this!😟... 😍d

I LOVE this idea and have long wondered why it's taken Apple so long to catch up to everyone else. It looks much cleaner than having the two boxes and hasn't resulted in a huge loss of functionality.

My problem is slightly different but similarly aggravating.

I use Google as my home page.

Just two days ago, the long white window to put your search words in disappeared. I finally figured out - and it was hard since I also use a google picasa photo as background - that there was not just a small blue vertical line where the window used to be (and clicking on that did no good) but a smaller black bouncing vertical line.

If I put my search words in starting at that jumping vertical line, I can use google - but it doesn't let me see my own spelling; it just gives me possible similar searches.

Frustrating.

Any ideas?

(I have no trouble with my tool bar or URL space with a follow up google search (smaller window than the one on the google home page).

Thanks for any ideas.

I HATE THIS NEW SAFARI! Please give us back our separate search window!!!!!

My solution was to install FireFox. The search bar is there and I can use DuckDuckGo with no problem. I'm actually pleased with it...no more Safari crap!

I believe that Apple made the change because they're trying to divorce themselves from any Google dependency, perceived or not. Regardless, it ***** for the users...

I like the google toolbar that I installed, except that I used the old google tool bar for a quick spelling check when I was writing on line and the old tool bar gave me spelling corrections automacticly without having to get off the site I was typing on, this one does not. Really wish they would put it back the way it was.

I think Apple made a big mistake!