Firefox is loading another web page instead of what I'm selecting

When using a search engine (google.com) and clicking on a search result, I'm being re-routed to another website.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== About 2 weeks ago

Hi,
My name is John, and I'm a member of the Searchqu Support Team. I'm here to help :)
When the software was installed onto your pc it offered two basic installs, typical installation, which lists the add-on features such as searchqu homepage, and custom installation, which allows you to select the add-ons that you wish to install. There's no need to worry if you did the typical install - this isn't a virus, nor malware, and there's no need to Perform a virus scan against it.
In order to change searchqu as your homepage please check:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page
we are here to assist :)
The searchqu support team.

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> This also has a css rule so this 9pt thing is left over
from copy and
> pasting
> from Word. I have it cleaned up as you suggested but I
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> I am being a complete idiot today (maybe it's because
it's Sunday) Can you
> talk me through this.
Make the changes manually in code view.
If you are getting the idea that you will need to ramp your
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> Dear Murrray
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>
> Can I ask you the following:
> 1. p.MsoNormal {
> Using Microsoft Word to build an HTML page is not
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> This also has a css rule so this 9pt thing is left over
from copy and
> pasting
> from Word. I have it cleaned up as you suggested but I
still have:
> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:9.0pt; is
there way of avoiding
> this?
>
> 2.
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class
> Using non-breaking spaces as a layout tool is not
advisable. Use CSS
> margins/padding instead..
>
>
> 3. This is not a named anchor point. It is not even a
link. For that you
> would need -
> <p style="font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:small; "
> id="BDBC">What we have said to
B&DBC</p>
>
> I am being a complete idiot today (maybe it's because
it's Sunday) Can you
> talk me through this.
>
> Thank you very much for your time. Much appreciated.
>
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>
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