Add google search to IE (and i don't mean the toolbar)

[jthsmak]

You add google search to IE's sidebar by going here and adding the reg key. It looks like this (fixed 4 real this time).

Edit: Oh hell, I thought i was in OT.

 

[spanky]

ur link to the pic is dead

 

[igowerf]

I created a search prefix for Google in TweakUI for Windows XP. I just type "g" in the address bar and then my search text.
I also have an "images" prefix for Google Images.

 

[kp1126]

links are dead for me.......let me guess....are you on Cyberwings? j/k

 

[jthsmak]

Originally posted by: kp1126
links are dead for me.......let me guess....are you on Cyberwings? j/k

No, but i thought i had apache set up right. Guess I didn't.

 

[Runciter]

You can also do this with the default search thing built into IE (may be XP specific). Just hit Search then Change Prefences/Change Internet Search behavior then pick Google (or whatever) as your default search engine.

 

[jthsmak]

Originally posted by: Runciter
You can also do this with the default search thing built into IE (may be XP specific). Just hit Search then Change Prefences/Change Internet Search behavior then pick Google (or whatever) as your default search engine.

Yeah but the whole point is that google is not on that list, you can only choose:

Yahoo
Lycos
Encarta
MSN Search
Overture
Euroseek
altavista
NetGuide
Look Smart
Yack
Excite
AOL Search
Switchboard
InfoSpace
BIgfoot
Worldpages

unless you add the reg key. I wonder why google isn't on the list.

 

[AlvinKlein]

Cool, it works thanks. I never used to use the search on IE but now with google, I going to start using it.

 

[DanFungus]

cool, thanks!

 

[klein297]

One less click, my wrist thanks you.

 

[Marm]

Thanks. I wish that Google would be added to the search option, I wonder if they did not pay Micro$oft enough money to be included in the search option.

 

[CHAOSMAN]

ive got the homemade google search thingy on ie, where u rightclick on any word on a page and choose search on google and it opens a new window with google search results, you can pm me if your interested

 

[wjones]

I use Web Accessories for this feature. The 'Web Search' is very useful for quick search. I even included a short cut for ebay item search, just enter an 'e' on the address bar and the item i want to search.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp

 

[Cryo]

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Originally posted by: Runciter
You can also do this with the default search thing built into IE (may be XP specific). Just hit Search then Change Prefences/Change Internet Search behavior then pick Google (or whatever) as your default search engine.
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Yeah but the whole point is that google is not on that list, you can only choose:

Yahoo
Lycos
Encarta
MSN Search
Overture
Euroseek
altavista
NetGuide
Look Smart
Yack
Excite
AOL Search
Switchboard
InfoSpace
BIgfoot
Worldpages

unless you add the reg key. I wonder why google isn't on the list.

for some reason google is on that list for me. I'm using xp pro

 

[Terminal Raptor]

Does it matter if google is on the list anyway? I believe several of those search engines use google and I know yahoo does.

-Raptor

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

i think the easiest for me is to install the google toobar, and then one can hit ALT G to shortcut right into the search box. no mouse needed =]

 

[Praxis]

You can use the IE Quick Search Utility that wjones references to easily make all kinds of custom searches from the "Address bar." Here are a few of my favorites, all of my own concoction (the letters are the shortcut keys I type followed by a space and then my query):
a: AcronymFinder Search
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=%s&Find=Find
aw: Alltheweb Search
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web〈=any&query=%s
av: AltaVista advanced
http://www.altavista.com/sites/sear...&d0=&d1=&rc=rgn&sgr=all&swd=&lh=&sc=on&nbq=10
d: Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s
d dp in Netscape6: Dogpile Search
http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=%s&geo=no&fs=web
g: Google Searc
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
gu: Google Usenet English 30 hits
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=%s&num=30&hl=en
l: Google Feeling Lucky Search (takes you directly to the first web page on a Google search).
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky
gn: Google News Search
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%s
m mm in NS6: Mamma Meta Search
http://www.mamma.com/Mamma?p1=1&timeout=4&query=%s
r: Resellersratings Search for specific vendor
http://www.resellerratings.com/reseller_list.pl?search=%s&imageField22.x=14&imageField22.y=5
y: Yahoo Search
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s

I no longer use Internet Exploiter, except to download the latest security patches to Microsoft products and visit MS sites that are deliberately formatted to be inaccessible to competitor's products: Mozilla is faster & more secure and I love the tabbed browsing option (which is finally being included in the Netscape 7 preview releases). You can use all these searches from Mozilla by going into Preferences-Navigator-Smart Browsing and enabling Internet Keywords. Then make a bookmark for each of these searches with the search prefix in the Internet Keyword field. Here are two searches I really like that I wasn't able to get IE Quick Search to accept (maybe they are too long).

yo: Yellow Pages Search
http://www.yellowpages.com/asp/sear...ype&search=%s&state=YOUR_STATE&city=YOUR_CITY
yy: Yahoo Yellow Pages- i.e. "yy liquor" gives me a list of the closest grog shops to my house along with a link to maps of said premises.
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py...=37.801545&sln=-122.247034&cs=9&Search=Search

Also, Mozilla (and NS6+) easily allows to make Google you default search engine from the Location Bar. However I don't like having to hit the Search icon after typing the search terms, but you can get around that and also make just about any search engine your default by looking over
this page & following the instructions.

Oh, and heads up on using IE even to patch Micro$oft's rampant security holes: there is a little clause in the EULA for the latest WMP patch that gives Microsoft carte blanche to install digital rights managment software on your computer and automatically disable any software that might circumvent DRM and copy or play "Secure Content." See... I find myself booting The Penguin more and more often....

Oh goody, I see I'm now a Senior Member. Most of my friends have been calling me a member for a long time. What a nice long-winded post to usher me into the realm of the damned.

 

[XFreebie]

although yahoo's search is really google's search results, since they license google, but google has less ads

 

[WarSong]

Originally posted by: AlvinKlein
Cool, it works thanks. I never used to use the search on IE but now with google, I going to start using it.

me too. Thanks for the info. very nice find

 

[Crackabot]

Dave's Quick Search

 

[Gmetech]

I no longer use Internet Exploiter, except to download the latest security patches to Microsoft products and visit MS sites that are deliberately formatted to be inaccessible to competitor's products: Mozilla is faster & more secure and I love the tabbed browsing option (which is finally being included in the Netscape 7 preview releases).

I've also been looking for IE alternatives. I first tried a few browsers (Fastbrowser and Crazybrowser) that use the IE engine, and have tabs. Fastbrowser has a nice search box with a pulldown memory and several functions. FastBrowser isn't free, but has a trial. The function to change default browsers back and forth didn'r work well and I ended up getting a utility that did it. I forget what the thing was I didn't like about Fastbrowser, but I quit using it after I learned of Crazybrowser.

Crazybrowser is free, and is my default browser at the moment. The change default browser function works, changing both from and to IE. , but Crazybrowser sometimes likes to leave multiple instances of itself in memory if a window crashes (I'm running Windows 2000 and they show in taskmanager processes). Other than that, I like it.


I also have tried Mozilla and I like it (I used Netscape before IE, years ago), and Mozilla has some cool options and add-ons (I recommend BannerBlind), but I really don't much care for the way Netscape/Mozilla handles bookmarks. I'm used to explorer sorting folders first or last, and having folders in the bookmark manager, sorted alphabetically along with the bookmarks is annoying to me.
I have a ton of bookmarks and have them sorted in a lot of folders, so dragging them around t fix the layout really isn't an option. What I'd like to see is an add-on to make Netscape/Mozilla handle bookmarks the way IE does, as a true folder with shortcuts in it, or something that makes bookmarks at least act like are in folders. Has anyone ever heard of anything like that?


Oh, and thanks for that link to Dave's Quick Search, Crackabot. Thats a pretty cool feature... and has a clock too. Grrr though that I just sorted out my clock options and settled on a system tray replacement, a week or two ago. Back to the feature comparing I guess...

 

[Fritzo]

All you need to do is click the Search button on the toolbar, click the Customize button, click the Autosearch settings button, and select "Google Sites" from the first drop down menu, and "Just display settings in main window" on the second menu.

Now you just type what you're searching for in the address bar and it will be searced for on Google. This setting has been used since IE 5.0 came out. Google is only available under the "autoseach settings" button. No fuss, no muss.

 

[Dealster]

FWIW, Netcaptor gives you a tabbed interface for IE (along with IE like quick search capability, ability to save collections of pages, etc). I've been using it for over a year now and can't stand using vanilla IE now.

 

[kxy]

Dave's Quick Search is awsome! Everybody try it NOW!!!!
Relink for the lazy.

Dave's Tool Bar

 

[Praxis]

but I really don't much care for the way Netscape/Mozilla handles bookmarks.

I'm with you on that one, Gmetech, the one place IE shines is the way it handles bookmarks. Mozilla has improved over the months, but still isn't nearly as flexible. I love being able to drag and drop bookmarks on the fly into various Favorites folders and edit them with the context menu, plus sort them by name with a click. Maybe someday Mozilla will have these features. Actually, though I do 90+% of my Windows browsing with Mozilla, IE is still my default browser, just because of the bookmarking attributes. In Linux I tend to use Galeon, which is a Gecko based browser like NS6+ and Mozilla.

I'm downloading Crazy Browser and will give it a whirl. I tried a couple of other tabbed IEs before, but they weren't stable or lacked core functionality. Maybe I'll try Netcaptor later, though it is shareware, not freeware like Crazybrowser.

Bannerblind is a nice feature, but I also like to use a hosts file to block ads, but with Mozilla you get an annoying error message saying you couldn't contact the ad server, so I use a little program called eDexter to silence that (and allow me to put whatever gifs I want where the ads normally go).