Safari Default sites now go to search engine

I upgraded to Leopard and now Safari works differently for me. It used to be that if i typed in an address with now www or .com it would automatically add it and take me to the site. Ex: If I typed APPLE into the address bar it would automatically ad the www.apple.com to it and take me to Apple.
Now it takes me to a search engine and searches for APPLE. Is that a setting I can change to make it work the other way. Now my Webbrowsing works like PC and that it no fun.

I too am looking for an answer to this one. For some reason if I type "apple" in the address window Verizon feels they need to help me out. ***? Cant find a preference anywhere to change this. Somebody help. I hope the poor guy who started this thread almost a year ago found an answer.

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As SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is important to you, you may want to consider alternatives to iWeb as "iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly" — read more here:
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...iWeb is designed for personal sites and, as such, Apple apparently thinks there's no need for Google — you tell grandma the URL of your personal iWeb site, she painstakingly types it in and then gazes admiringly at the photos of her grandchildren.
Apple hasn't changed this approach in three iterations of iWeb but perhaps, with all the feedback it receives on this issue, there's still hope. Meanwhile, web-design apps for business sites tend to integrate search engine optimization — Sandvox Pro is an example:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/getyour_site_noticed_andb.html
Another advantage of Sandvox is that, when viewing your site in Safari, the text increase & decrease commands will work — they don't work for an iWeb-created site. ...For business use, it's important that customers don't turn away from your site because they consider your text too small to read.
However, if you still really want to use iWeb, this article may help:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/SEO.html
By the way, for more info about SEO in general, this blog of a web-design app (Yola) recently started a multi-part series on the subject — the first is here:
http://blog.yola.com/2009/06/15/seo-101
The rest of the series (in no particular order) can be found here:
http://blog.yola.com/category/seo/
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Also, this behavior did coincide with a recent update to our Intego Antivirus software, but I think this is unrelated
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which not only does that but much more equally useful stuff! Such as enabling Safari to run full-screen, and more.)
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I just installed Firefox 30.0 and now my search engine isn't working. Is there something in the new version interfering with Google search?

Are you using the Search box located at the top right corner of Firefox or the actual Google homepage?
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Message was edited by: jessicanutrition

jessicanutrition wrote:
Is there a settings page within iWeb that manages this?
Jessica ~ Welcome to the discussions. Most built-in templates have a large header caption at the top of the page and there's the Page tab in iWeb's Inspector — see the section "1) iWeb Page Titles" in this article:
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The whole point of an omnibar is so you can easily search a variety of search providers without having to go to their website first. For instance, in every other web browser I can type "i Oranges" and get pictures of oranges from Google Images. Or I can type "a Cookbooks" and instantly search Amazon for cookbooks. In every other web browser, in fact, I've been able to do this since at least 2010. What's the problem Apple? Can you seriously not figure out how to implement this? "Smart Search" isn't smart at all if I'm going to be stuck with the default 3 search engines.
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