Iphone5 - safari is set touse google search, but redirects to a bogus site

When i use the web search in safari, it normally goes to google and displays my results. However, a few days ago it started sending me to a yahoo page that says 'this page cannot be found'. And when I try to enter the URL for google, it takes me to a google look-alike, but it isn't actually google. Nor does the page work.
Search works fine if I set the phone to Yahoo or Bing, but I much prefer Google. And frankly, I'm concerned I may have gotten some sort of iphone malware...

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