My search engine is set to Google and has been for years. I do dozens of searches from the omnibox a day (IT Manager). About a week ago, I noticed that occasionally I would get a Yahoo search result page. It probably happens once or twice a day. If I immediately do the search again, I get the expected Google results.
Does anyone have ANY idea what would be causing this?
My only thought would be an extension. I've disabled the only one I installed recently, but is there any way to confirm or troubleshoot this issue?
Edit: This is happening on two PCs. Must be an extension.
Best Answer
I tracked this problem down to the Chrome extension "Ratings Preview for YouTube" (extension has been removed from the Chrome and Firefox add-ons store), as I was having the same problem and it was driving me nuts. I used the LinkResearchTools extension on Chrome to log redirects and found my Google redirects were going to:
Which then were redirected to:
I was able to use this to find a recent Reddit post describing how "Ratings Preview for YouTube" had started doing these redirects for other people in Firefox; I was using this extension on Chrome so I disabled it, haven't had the problem since, and am now using the extension Thumbnail Ratings Bar for YouTube.