Hijacked by Bing

[Raven1]

I've been using Google search engine for years on my imac which has OS 10.9.4. No problems. Two weeks ago, Bing replaced itself instead of Google as search engine. I changed my home page back ok. System shows Google selected as search engine, but even when I reset it to Yahoo or Google, this happens: Address line says "Search Google or enter an address", but when I type in a search and enter, the search gets taken over by Bing, and what I get is a Bing search. How do I get rid of Bing? Thanks for any help!

 

[Kaveman]

It's probably using your history or cache to populate the list. These can cleared from the Safari menu.

 

[Raven1]

Hi Kaveman,

Thanks, but I tried clearing from the Safari menu...no effect. If I type in a search, before I do that my browser says I'm typing into Google: but as soon as I hit "enter" instead of Google doing the search, it goes to Bing and Bing does the search! Really kind of amazing and annoying! Any other ideas?

Thx,
Raven1

 

[Kaveman]

System shows Google selected as search engine, but even when I reset it to Yahoo or Google

Just to check, Safari menu > Preferences > General > Default search engine: is set to Google?

 

[Raven1]

Hi Kaveman,

Yea, the default search engine is set to Google. I actually went in and changed it to Bing and tried it out: the search is a Bing search. I changed it to Yahoo: It said the default search engine was Yahoo, but when I did a search, it changed the search to a Bing search! I changed it again to Google: the default said it was Google, but when I did a search, although I typed it in and the space said "Search Google or enter an address", when I did that and hit enter, the search began and was immediately hijacked by Bing and came up as a Bing search. Wow.

Any ideas?

Raven1

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Have you installed any apps that haven't come from the App Store recently?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Also, look in Safari > Preferences... > Extensions and see if there are any toolbars or Bing-related items installed there.

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[cgl]

The exact same thing is happening to me. No extensions that are Bing or Bing related. Set the search preference to google but it keeps flipping back. Any other ideas?

 

[Dphillips2]

The exact same thing is happening to me. No extensions that are Bing or Bing related. Set the search preference to google but it keeps flipping back. Any other ideas?

I think the extension is called search genius. I deleted it from my extensions, and now Google is my default again.