Search engine-yahoo or safari

I am new to Mac Air. When I first started using my Mac, I thought my search engine was Safari. However, today I noticed that when I clicked on Safari to do a search, Yahoo was the substituted as the search engine. Is this the way it should be? If not can I get rid of Yahoo and use only Safari? I am a novice so I apologize if this is an ignorant question.

You can choose one from 3 search engines Google,Yahoo and Bing.
Google is set as "Default search engine".
Safari > Preferences > General.
In this case, you have installed an adware inadvertently.
1. Safari > Preferences > Extensions
     Turn those off and try.
2. Identify and remove adware
    http://www.thesafemac.com/arg/
    or
   use Adware Removal Tool.
   http://www.thesafemac.com/art/
Best.

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1. GO TO THE TOOL BAR WHERE IT SAYS SAFARI AND CLICK TO BRING DOWN THE MENU OF OPTIONS, CLICK ON PREFERENCES
2.INSTEAD OF JUST CLICKING ON THE GENERAL TAB AND CHANGING THE SEARCH ENGINE LIKE EVERY OTHER STUPID SUPPORT TELLS YOU TO DO LOOK AT THE TAB THAT SAYS EXTENSIONS.
3. Chances are you downloaded something that was made by a third party to "enhance" your web experience but really they just screwed you over, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO SIMPLY UNINSTALL ANY EXTENSIONS PUT ON YOUR COMPUTER BY CLICKING INSTALL, BUT TO BE SURE THAT THIS IS THE ROOT OF YOUR PROBLEM IN THE SECOND COLUMN SIMPLY CLICK ON THE UNDERLINED NAME OF WHO THE EXTENSION IS MADE BY IF CLICKING THE LINK BRINGS UP A YAHOO PAGE THIS IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR ISSUES AND SIMPLY UNINSTALLING THIS WILL RID YOU OF THIS DUMB PROBLEM!!
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