Search from IE address bar

Published Thu, Aug 19 2004 15:02 | girishb
Following registry entries (copy the registry stuff below to a .reg file and import it), will allow you to type something like "g Boston" in the address bar and have it search using google web. "gg Boston" will search Google groups. You might have already done this stuff. But, if not, this can be pretty handy. 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"="MSN"
@="http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\gg]
@="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\kb]
@="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\msdn]
@="http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?qu=%s&View=msdn"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\y]
@="http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=%s"
I found the initial pointer here.

Comments

# TrackBack said on August 22, 2004 7:18 AM: