Explorer searching

[Guest_imported]

Can anyone help, please? I'm trying to set my default, address-bar search engine to look at yahoo instead of MSN when I just type in a word into the address bar, does anyone know if this can be done? I've tried changing the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc but this didn't work, and also adding information to the registry, btu still can't get it to work, has anyone else, because this is driving me mad......

 

[reghakr]

Click the Search button on IE's toolbar. Click the Customize entry that appears in the left pane window. choose Autosearch Settings button and change the drop-down box to Yahoo.

reghakr

 

[tsuji]

Hello, ChrisPaulWilson.

And to do that directly with registry, the .reg file should be as follows.

;---------below this line---yahoosearch.reg-----

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
@="[URL unfurl="true"]http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s"[/URL]

;---------above this line---yahoosearch.reg-----

But, the customize in the IE interactive setting is probably the safer way.

regards - tsuji

 

[paulwood]

tsuji,

Will your registry hack work if Yahoo is not in the list reghakr mentions, what if you want to use Google instead?

 

[tsuji]

Hello, paulwood.

On this issue, I cannot speak with confidence. Verification is needed all the time. In particular, I think I should have made a precision on the MSIE version. It's good only for 4.x. I believe MSIE5.x starts to complicate the matter quite a lot.

Suppose not the google, but the archirival Netscape. On 4.x, the line I would propose is:

@="[URL unfurl="true"]http://keyword.netscape.com/keyword/%s"[/URL]

Similar construction for google if you get the google search engine query form with %s the query string operating on the server side.

I can take the word for granted per mskb article:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/2/79.ASP

and for restoring to default:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q179/4/02.ASP

The whole arsenal seems largely insufficient for MSIE5.x. But, then, I cannot speak with confidence. I've not had the chance to go to the bottom of the matter there. I'm not sure if it is possible at all.

regards - tsuji

 

[reghakr]

To all:

I don't have the time to experiment, but there is a way to set Google as the default search engine (in the cut and paste example below). The biggest problem is that you loose all other search engines. As tsuji suggested, possible just chnaging this value:

http://keyword.netscape.com/keyword/%s

to

http://www.google.com/keyword/%s

may be a possibility.
=============BEGIN CUT===================
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="

http://www.google.com"

"Search Bar"="

http://www.google.com/ie"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="

http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="

http://www.google.com/ie"

================END CUT=================

reghakr

 

[JoeKizonu]

just get the google toolbar for IE. goto

http://toolbar.google.com/

No Joke,
Joe

 

[tsuji]

Hello, all.

For the sake of accuracy, the google query for _all_ groups can be set in the form:

@="[URL unfurl="true"]http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s"[/URL]

A more elaborate form with search on English language groups and 25 findings per page display:

@="[URL unfurl="true"]http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&num=25&hl=en&meta="[/URL]

Google has many subgroups. So a search on a specific subgroup can be done by looking at url on a simple trial basis.

regards - tsuji