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    How to change default search engine in Safari

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by codeoverride, Nov 7, 2008.

  1. codeoverride

    codeoverride Notebook Evangelist

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    My wife's mother is thinking of getting a mac but for some reason she doesn't like google search. Is there a way to change the default search engine in safari? Thanks :)
     
    codeoverride, Nov 7, 2008
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  2. StrongerThanAll

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    does she have to use safari? i would recommend using firefox
     
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  3. Tony

    Tony Nissan ftw!

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    Yeah, go into preferences and then change the setting for "Default Search Engine"
    Yahoo is the only choice besides Google though..
     
    Tony, Nov 7, 2008
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    I just downloaded Safari after seeing this. I don't know why I did... silly me. Anywho!

    I found out how to... I only know how to switch it to yahoo, but you do that by clicking the little microscope in the search blob. I do not know how to ad them, I think that yahoo might've been rolled over into it by IE7. You can pick what's your default with that very easily, then you could use it in safari.
     
    Isend2C, Nov 7, 2008
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    google is the best search engine.
     
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    I guess she likes Internet Explorer (which I'm pretty sure you can't install on OS X, right?) and I guess she likes MSN search. So there's no way to change to anything other than google or yahoo? That's kind of weird..
     
    codeoverride, Nov 7, 2008
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