Adding Search to IE7

Vista RC1

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:03:22 GMT

I'm currently reviewing Vista RC1 and IE7. There are a few annoying things about Vista. For example, I used to be able to set Connect to a menu choice, and then you could easily select the VPN you wanted. However, in Vista, I haven't been able to set it to a menu choice, so you have to open a window and then select the VPN.

South Florida

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:15:25 GMT

Florida seems to be under some nasty weather. I've looked into how to search on zip codes to get weather information so I could add a search to IE7 search but haven't really come up with anything.

Yelp

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:10:33 GMT

Yelp lets you to search near a location and find reviews of restaurants, venues, clubs, nightlife, parks, etc. This search is set to search Boca Raton, so you'll need to customize it for your own area. The reviews are done by anybody, so they have a rapidly growing list. I've added it to IE7 Search Providers. I wish it had an RSS feed for the new reviews.

Copernic

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:49:22 GMT

Copernic is a meta search engine drawing on results from Google, Yahoo, Looksmart, and others. It has a downloadable tool, but I found a way to add search to IE7. Copernic has a good reputation for making a desktop search tool, but I haven't tried it myself.

Browsing searches by TLD

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:34:32 GMT

It would be a useful feature to be able to browse for searches at Add Searches to IE7 by their top level domain. This way you could easily see if someone had added a search for the UK, or even .net. That would be a cool feature.

Gather.com

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:55:01 GMT

Gather.com just got added to OpenSearch: search providers for IE7. Gather.com allows users to create and tag articles. Users can add comments. It seems similar to Squidoo and HubPages, but without being able to add modules or sections like those.

added Yahoo for UK search to the OpenSearch IE7 list

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:33:33 GMT

I added Yahoo for UK search to the OpenSearch: adding Search plugins to IE7 and Firefox. Something that is interesting about the way that Yahoo handles that, is it redirects yahoo.co.uk to uk.yahoo.com.

UK searches

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:51:23 GMT

You can see that OpenSearch: adding searches to IE7 has already had some UK searches added to it. If you go and search on .uk you will see several searches.

UK searches in IE7

I added Surfwax to OpenSearch List

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:03:24 GMT

SurfWax is a meta search engine which offers a variety of ways to analyze the results, including FocusWords and SearchSets. I've added Surfwax.com to OpenSearch: adding searches plugins to Firefox. They offer different options, like showing the summary or not.

Adding Google Books search

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:03:06 GMT

I just got inspired to add another search by newtronic. I just added Google Books search to Searches for Firefox and IE7. Google Book search does a full text scan. I don't have a feeling for how many books they cover.

Added Bloglines to IE7 Search

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:50:48 GMT

At OpenSearch: Add Searches plugins to IE7 and Firefox, I added a search using the Bloglines engine to search for feeds. I need to investigate more how Bloglines tracks its feeds.

Adding Feedster to IE7 search toolbar

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:36:35 GMT

At OpenSearch: Add Searches plugins to IE7 and Firefox, I added a search using the Feedster engine to search for podcasts. Something I don’t understand is how Feedster finds the feeds that it searches. Perhaps it monitors the weblogs.com site or more. I think it might have its own ping service, but if that’s the case, every blogging service out there would have to ping them.

Adding internet tools to the IE7 Search toolbar

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:28:55 GMT

Over at Polarman, he has a post about adding dns and whois to the IE7 search toolbar using OpenSearch: Adding Search to IE7. Apparently, he uses www.DNSStuff.com and adds various tools from there to the toolbar. This is a very clever way of adding things that are not at first glance "search' and using the search toolbar to speed up accessing those tools.

Custom List: Custom List

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:22:29 GMT

OpenSearch: adding search to IE7
Search plugins for IE7 (Internet Explorer) and Firefox 2. Add your own searches or browse the hundreds that already have been added.
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