Google won't work in Safari but works in FireFox?!

For the past couple of days, after doing a few searches in the Google search bar, it suddenly stops working and I get the following error message instead of Google:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.google.com/” because it can’t find the server “www.google.com”.
If I type in www.google.com in the address bar, I get the same thing.
I'm able to search Google in Firefox and visit the site no problem.
This is VERY strange. Any idea what it could be? I reset Safair (emptied cache, cookies, etc) and doesn't fix it.

Can you take your Mac somewhere else (next door neighbour using a different ISP, or to work or something) and use the internet connection there, and do you get a different/better result there?
It sounds like you've checked all the "obvious things", and are still getting sites not found or really slow to resolve (that is when the blue progress bar in Safari stops about where the first w in www in the address bar is before the page starts to appear).
If so, something you could try fairly quickly and which has brought relief to rather a lot of people with similar-sounding issues, is you could try changing the DNS server settings on your Mac to use a different provider. NB: I'm not sure what it is that makes the difference, but something seems to have been changed in OS X which makes the Mac work badly with some ISP's DNS services, even when a PC (or a Mac running an older OS X version) is still working just fine on the same network and using the same DNS. I use the DNS servers from www.opendns.com, which are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, but people have had good success with other providers too, I just can't remember the names or addresses offhand. Try specifying those in the network configuration on your Mac itself, or on your router if you want to change it for all machines on your network, and see if it suddenly fixes those issues for you.

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