You can pick and choose your Safari search engine. Popular choices include Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo. You can change this in settings, but there’s also a quick keyboard shortcut.
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Change Safari Search Engine

If you want to change your search engine, open a new tab and press the Spacebar in the empty URL field. This gives you an option to change the search engine, but also gives you a list of recent searches.

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