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Still better that Safari on Mac which doesn't allow anything but Google as the search engine.

Maybe not out of the box, but the FREE Safari plugin Inquisitor allows the search engine to be changed at will, and much more.

The site does a really poor job of explaining this, but trust me, Inquisitor will do the trick.

I have read that Inquisitor may not work with Safari 4 yet (which may be outdated information). Here is another free plugin, Glims, that will allow the changing of search engines in Safari 4 for Mac.

As a Mac user, it IS kind of odd that Safari 4 for Windows allows the selection of Search Engines, but Safari 4 for Mac does not...

I think you have been misinformed.

Try this: http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

It's a pity that Safari (at least on Mac) doesn't allow any other search engine except Google. That is just plain mean.

There is this add-on, Inquisitor , that lets you search with Yahoo.

Inquisitor allows you to use what used to be the Google search box with your own search engines, in addition to some other handy things.

Inquisitor for Safari is far, far superior to what's available in Firefox for search box magic. It even gives instant results as you type.

Have you played with the freeware InquisitorX?

http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

I've just played with Safari on Windows and it's cool. I'm unsure about the menu bar at the top though, and the extra 20 vertical pixels or so that it takes up - that just doesn't look as clean as it does on OS X. Windows needed another browser to give IE a run for its money, and this is it.

And it supports rich text editing in GMail :-)

I hope it will be supporting the plugin framework that Safari on OS X does, I like things like the Inquisitor search plugin.

For Wikipedia, I use http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:en.wikip edia.org+%@&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky (as long as we're taking shortcuts, why not get rid of that first click too?)

BTW, Safari users can get plugins for quick search here. I particularly like Inquisitor.

http://www.inquisitorx.com/

Inquisitor puts Google Suggest into the search field in the Safari toolbar. You can also map different key commands (such as control-enter) to different search sites. I often will use Google Suggest's autocomplete to help me type something but search for the term in wikipedia.

Right now this software is free but this same author used a bait-and-switch model with his RSS reader software, NewsFire. NewsFire was free until version 1.0, which became nagware, after myself and many others got hooked on the software. I am not averse to paying for shareware but I feel like the expectations of the software should be properly set up front. I thought more highly of the software because it was free, which lowers the standard by which I would evaluate such software. Regardless, I still like NewsFire and have paid for my copy. This author has also been accused of selling GPL'd code as part of his Acquisition gnutella software. This guy makes some good stuff but I question his morals.

There's a freeware app doing incremental search
on google that does that on os x by the way :

http://www.inquisitorx.com/