How do I stop Google results from redirecting me back to the main site itself?

Hi, so today, this morning, when I booted up my laptop (Mac, OS X Mavericks), Safari and Google started freaking out on me. It was the first time anything of the sort has happened to me before, and being the lousy tech person I am, I am freaking out quite a bit.
Let me elaborate.
I opened up Safari as per usual, went on Skype, had a nice little conversation with my friend when she suddenly brought up the topic of Mila Kunis. Me, being the girl that lives under the rock, goes "I don't know anything about her except for the fact that she's pregnant", and my friend goes, "Well, Google it, then!"
So I do, and then all **** breaks loose.
I go to the toolbar in Google, everything's looking normal, and then I enter "Mila Kunis", and click on the first result that pops up (Wikipedia, basically). Now this is where it starts to go strange.
The result doesn't open at all; instead, it redirects me back to the Google homepage: www.google.com.hk. I have tried entering in different results in the Google toolbar, but when I click on any of the results, it always redirects me back to Google. The only way I can open the results given to me is by copying and pasting the URL that is sometimes displayed on the bottom of the link; if not, then I get, you guessed it, redirected back to Google. This can be very annoying as no one likes to enter in the URLs of websites manually.
I have tried many solutions, such as disabling add-ons, starting the laptop in safe-boot and deleting, as some high-tech professionals put it, "files that don't look like they belong". It seems that the problem resides within my laptop, as when I Google things on my phone and desktop computer, it works perfectly fine. Please help, I really don't know what to do.

From the Safari menu bar, select
          Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
and confirm. Test.

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