Safari and default seach engine

Easiest way to achieve this is to simply install the Glims plugin for Safari. It adds a section in Safari's preferences where you can change the search engine, among adding many other features.

 

I found it curious that Leopard came with a Yahoo! bookmark in Safari's bookmarks bar, and a Google search box in its toolbar. I use the bookmark.

 

Is there not another way to do this, than installing some 3rd party software? Opera has the option to where it's so easy to do it. I need to do it because I'm in China and google has now redirected google to go to google.hk and I hate that site, it's in Chinese so the search results are as well. I need it to only use google.com or google.co.uk Is it at all possible without installing some 3rd party app?

 

No, because I believe Apple and Google have a contract to impose Google upon Safari users.