Is safari a search engine?

Because with iOS 8, Apple has sneaked in an important new option for its default Safari web browser. For the first time, you can choose to switch your browser’s default search engine from Google to something else. The choices are Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Now, at least three of those search engines are well known. And then there’s Bing. read more

The engine is one of the new features in Safari 4, released to developers on June 11, 2008. The new JavaScript engine quickly evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, featuring even further improved performance over SquirrelFish, and was eventually marketed as Nitro. read more

When you use Private Browsing, Safari doesn’t remember the pages you visit, your search history, or your AutoFill information. You can also use DuckDuckGo, a built-in search engine that doesn’t track you, to make your web searches private, too. read more