Yes, I believe in Firefox you can go to Preferences, enter it as a search engine and make it default.
You can in Chrome. Typically, I prefer Safari, where you can't! Ramifications indeed, not least I hadn't realised that it Google try to tailor their results to me.. hence if I search for something on my wife's Mac, different results pop up compared to mine. That's not useful. It's annoying. On Jan 26, 7:19 pm, andrew lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: > Can it be made the default search engine on, say, Firefox - or is it a case > of having to go to it before running a search? > > I was rather startled to find how much information is retained. So, every > time I google asthma, or alcoholic liver disease, or pancreatic cancer (I > always look up what friends or relatives have to see if I can find anything > that might help) I could be leaving a trail that would make, for example, > BUPA, see me as a really bad risk? > > And that is only one example - the ramifications are legion. > > Thanks. > On 25 Jan 2012, at 10:53 am, mac98aop wrote: > > > > > > > > > Using this as my search engine, and rather recommend. > > > Okay, it lacks a certain speed and panache of Google, but it's not > > recording my every move, or any move for that matter, so I rather like > > it! > > > Now, if only Safari would let me edit my search engine options? Why > > WOULD Apple lock that down? > > > Money talks? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
