How to change the yahoo search engine back to the google search engine?
so my friend told me i should download that thing called gimp and when i did it like messed up my computer! so now when i open firefox the search engine is yahoo when i used to have google. and there's a toolbar that has like yahoo search and mail and the weather and ebay things. its so annoying i just want what i had before; the google search engine. someone pleassee help meee(: thank you.
It won't let me make google my default search engine?
I have a MacBook Air and was updating my Adobe Flash just now, and something sketch as **** happened and now Yahoo is somehow permanently my default search engine. I tried looking up how to change it back to google, and all the websites are saying go to preferences, then switch the default engine to "google". I literally did JUST THAT and it's still yahoo. >:( **** it all. I **** you not it says "default search engine: Google" and it's still Yahoo. I'm being lied to and I'm pissed off with all the tedious spammy bullshit that seems to happen to me all the time on my computer. I am technologically illiterate and need help. Is there another surefire way I can switch back to google? Please and thanks.
Can I change Siri's search engine?
Safari and Siri used to be connected. Whichever search engine Safari used Siri used. That's no longer the case. Google pays Apple to be the default search on Safari and Bing pays Apple to the the default search on Siri. You can change it in Safari but not in Siri. You can search Google in Siri by saying "Search Google for...." or "Google..."
Why is yahoo my default search engine?
If it keeps changing on its own there is some type of add-on doing it. For example the Yahoo toolbar. For Internet Explorer other than version 9 Click the down arrow in the search box in the upper right. Select Manage Search Providers. Change the default. Find More Providers should bring you to a list where you can add more to the list. For Internet Explorer version 9 Start typing the search term into the URL box. Click on the icon for the default in the dropdown. For Firefox Type about:config into the URL box. Type keyword.url into filter Double click on the parameter to change For Google use this parameter http://www.google.com/search?q= For Yahoo use this parameter http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= For Bing use this parameter http://www.bing.com/search?q= I believe that if the parameter is blank it defaults to Google. ʎəɿʞɹɐq ̊ ͜͡● ̊
I accidentally changed my search engine on my iPhone to yahoo how do I change it back to google?
Hey Lindsey, it's very easy! Assuming you're using the iPhone's built in browser, Safari, just follow these steps: 1) Tap the "Settings" app (the one with the gears) 2) Scroll down a little bit and tap the "Safari" button 3) The first option should be "Search Engine" 4) Tap it, and change it to whichever search engine you like. Hope that works for your!
Will Apple eventually replace Google Search (in Safari) with a search engine powered by Siri?
Siri is not about searching, it's about getting rid of the need to search.Search is an intermediate step. People search for stuff and must then trawl through the results to accomplish some goal. The eventual point of Siri is to directly accomplish the desired outcome without asking the user to do all the hard work. This by-passes search completely. It also bypasses Google's business model.Imagine this Siri transaction.User - "I need a rental car for my business trip."Siri - "Hertz at SFO is offering a compact at $240 for those 4 days"User - "Book that"To make that sort of transaction possible, Apple does not need to create a search engine. It does need a server back-end, but that back-end needs to identify, interrogate and perform transactions with the servers of the vendor.To do that vendors would have to provide an agent-friendly version of their web services. Once Siri-like agents are commonplace, search will become a more specialised activity.
Yahoo keeps setting itself as my default search engine. Despite me removing it multiple times, it still resets a few days later, how can I stop this?
You need to change it in your internet options.sounds like you might have done this already and it didn't work.If that's the case then you have been browser hijacked.Its hidden in your registry somewhere.You can download a program called malwarbytesIts free ware so you can use the trial version and run a deep scan and it should solve the problem.Remember to update it before you run the scan
Google pays Apple $3bn a year to be their exclusive search engine. What return on investment does Google see on that?
As per this link Google may have paid Apple $3 billion to remain the iPhone's default search engine Google’s mobile ads revenue has tripled from 16B to 50B based on third party estimates. In 2014 Google paid 1B, its not hard for them to agree to pay 3B.Another source says 50% of Google’s Mobile ads revenue comes from Apple devices, so we are looking at 25B.Lets assume Apple changes its default search engine to Bing or DuckDuckGo in 2018. Actually, owing to Google’s search engine’s popularity, people will still learn to replace the default search engine back to Google and I would estimate still a 10–20% folks wouldnt care to replace that or just will never care to learn to replace it due to their inertia(dumbness or trust/loyalty to Apple)It may still be a temporary blip in Google usage may be for a month or a quarter before it trickles back to normalcy, though there would still be a 5–10% gap fill pending.Lets take the max 10% of quarterly revenue of 25B i.e 625M and annually if the gap remains at 10% the hit would be 2.5BBut then by the end of the year we have more iphones/Android/Other devices added and more ad revenue and fragmentation. However, Google still commands the Lions share of search traffic and its related Ads revenue.Please excuse any typos, written on iphone.