If you’re like most people, you search the web a lot. Google handles nearly 85,000 searches per second, or 7.3 billion per day, or more than two and a half trillion searches every year. Your share of that may be small.
if you’re just an average person, you may search the web 3-5 times a day, but some of us, such as writers, may perform several dozen searches in a single day when researching articles and books.
Searching the web is free. But nothing is really free. In exchange for providing you with such a powerful tool, Google collects data about you. It creates a unique profile of you, of your interests.
Switching Search Engines in macOS
While you can easily visit any search engine’s website to carry out a search—just type, say, bing.com in your browser’s address field it’s easiest to use either the built-in search field or the combination search and an address field that browsers such as Safari and Chrome offer. To be able to use a different search engine than the default, you’ll need to manually make a change.
Here’s how you do this for the three main browsers in macOS.
- Safari: Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Search. Click the Search Engine menu and make your choice. Safari lets you use Google, Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.
- Firefox: Choose Firefox > Preferences, and then click Search. You can choose from a number of search engines that you can use when typing into the address bar, and set a different search engine to use in the search bar. There are also a number of settings below that you can use to make your searches more efficient.
- Chrome: Choose Chrome > Preferences, then click Search Engine. You can choose from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia. If you click “Manage search engines…” you can choose other search engines as well, and add any you want, such as a specific website where you search often.
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