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Install Search Plugin

Safari

Make Cuil the default search engine in Safari.

This guide applies to the Mac version of Safari only.

Download and install Glims

1. Download the Glims installer from the publisher's website. More information about other capabilities of Glims is also located on this site.
2. If you downloaded using Safari, the dmg will mount automatically and the installer will launch. Skip to step 6. If the installer did not launch automatically, continue to step 3.
3. Find the downloaded file in your Downloads folder and unzip the archive by double clicking it. This will create “Glims1b16.dmg” in your Downloads folder.
4. Mount Glims1b16.dmg by double clicking it. This will mount a disk called “Glims” on your desktop.
5. Double click “Glims.mpkg” to run the installer.
6. Follow the instructions to install Glims. You will need to enter your password.

Configure Glims

1. Quit and restart Safari.
2. From the “Safari” menu, select “Preferences”
3. Select “Glims” from the options along the top.
4. Select “Search Engines” from the options on the left.
5. Click the “Add” button in the bottom left of the Preferences window.
6. Enter these settings for each field:
   Name: Cuil
   Type: Search Engine
   Query URL: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=#query#
   
   
7. Click “Set”
8. Feel free to disable any search engines you do not use. If you click and drag an item in the list, you can change it’s order.
9. Close the Preferences window.

Usage

What Glims does is allow you to change the search engine in Safari’s search box. When you click on the Google icon in the search box, you’ll get a list of other search engines to choose from. Cuil will be in that list.

To search using Cuil, click the Google icon and then select Cuil. Now, searches you make in the search box will return Cuil results.