My default search engine problems on safari

I have my default search engine set on google and everytime I go to search something it gets searched on bing instead of google. I can't stand bing and I do not know what happened to cause this problem and can not figure it out on how to fix it. What do I have to do to fix it?

You may have (likely) gone to some site where software downloads are offered, at some point, and gotten an 'adware' product. This 'bing' browser issue is part of a thing called conduit. There are bits and pieces that get distributed in your OS X system from opening files (or having a browser set to automatically open 'trusted' downloads) that really are not what they say. In the process looking to get a copy of Flash player, you could go to a non-Adobe site and instead get genieo, conduit, or other adware corrupted files that don't do what they propose, yet mess with your computer. Even 'cleanupyourmac' kinds of things can be laced with junk files. Unnecessary, altogether. Avoid the temptation, for example, to get 'cleanmypc' kinds stuff, instead learn how OS X works, first.
There are a variety of adware products out there, so you will have to read through The Safe Mac pages to see what best matches what you can find in your computer. Sometimes the output of Console (utility) can help, also a system profile of your running OS X from etrecheck can show plists or other extension parts that could be affecting your computer. Symptoms of the problem.
•The Safe Mac - Adware Removal Guide:
http://www.thesafemac.com/arg/
(See 'conduit' in /arg above, also see 'Locating files from paths' as a way to track down their location and existence, as part of removal; this may be one of the best methods of finding these)
For general information on your computer, or you need to show someone what your Mac's present configuration is running, get: http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck The info from this can be added to your posts in discussions. Use the camera icon.
Be careful of the sources of 'free' applications and the nature of things you may feel inclined to get, as there are several out there totally unnecessary and the problem comes from the user installing junk under fear or false promise, and a general unawareness of how to correctly handle Mac OS X.
Good luck & happy computing!

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Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want to use a specific search engine.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH17150
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Safari 7 (Mavericks): Install and update Safari extensions
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH17200
Select the extension, then click Uninstall.
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This page details a hack to change one of the defaults to an engine of your choice:
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Hi there I\'m an Apple user,
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* [http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350 Anti-Rootkit Utility - TDSSKiller]
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* [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro]
* [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/MSE Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista/XP if you don't already have one.
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