Internet Explorer 7 - Search Features

Internet Explorer 7’s search tool is no longer limited to Microsoft’s search engine. Now you can use it with Google, Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, and many others. Additionally, the Search feature lets you search the Web directly from the Internet Explorer 7 frame, rather than forcing you to open a separate page or tab for a search engine. You can add multiple search providers and change your default provider.

• Searching the Web
• Adding Search Providers
• Changing the Search Default Provider

Searching the Web

Microsoft's Live Search is the default Search provider. However, you have the option of adding different providers and changing the default provider.

• In the Search text box, type your search criteria
  

• Click SEARCH
  OR
  Press [Enter]
  The current tab goes to the search provider's page, which displays the search results.

• OPTIONAL: To search with a provider other than the default
  1. In the Search text box, type your search criteria
  2. lick SEARCH OPTIONS» select the provider you want to use for the search
     The current window goes to the selected provider, which displays the search result

Adding Search Providers

A useful feature of Search is the ability to add multiple search providers. With multiple providers, you can easily search the Web from the Search text box using either your default provider or any of your other providers.

Search provider options include traditional search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo!), shopping sites (e.g., Amazon, eBay, Best Buy), reference sites (e.g., Wikipedia, About.com), and news and sports sites (e.g., USA Today, ESPN), among others.

1. Click SEARCH OPTIONS» select Find More Providers...
   Internet Explorer goes to a page with eligible Search providers.

2. Select a provider by clicking its link
   The Add a Search Provider dialog box appears.
   NOTE: Search providers are restricted to those offered at Microsoft's Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer 7 web page.

3. OPTIONAL: To make a new Search provider your default provider, select Make this my default search provider

4. Click ADD PROVIDER
   The selected provider is added to your list of Search providers.

Changing the Search Default Provider

Once you have added other Search providers, you have the option of changing the default provider.

1. Click SEARCH OPTIONS» select Change Search Defaults...
   The Change Search Defaults dialog box opens.
   

2. In the Search Providers window, select the new default provider

3. Click SET DEFAULT
   The default provider is changed.

4. To exit and save the new default provider, click OK
   To exit without saving the new default provider, click CANCEL