The awesome bar used to be set to goole, but now it's set to bing. how do I switch it back?

when i used the awesome bar it always used google as its browser. but now, it has somehow switched to bing. I personally, like google, and I'd like to know how to switch it back. can you help me?
P.S. its not because of a update to firefox. because it only happened about a week ago, and firefox 4 came out before then.

You can modify the pref keyword.URL on the about:config page to use Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" or Google's "Browse By Name".
* Google "I'm Feeling Lucky": http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
* Google "Browse by Name": http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.URL
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
* [[Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar]]

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