Yahoo hijacked my address bar and new tabs how can i restore google

Whenever I open a new tab it defaults to yahoo search even when i uninstalled yahoo toolbar and set new tabs to my home page. Yahoo also shows in my address bar. What gives? I would prefer to have google for my search default new tab page

here's the FIRST HALF of the source... how do I obliterate it?
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