Customize Search

[Dewey]

Is there a way to add a new search engine in the customized search bar? In
particular I want to add google maps to the search for a map category.

Thanks.

 

[Dewey]

There is no feature currently available to add google maps by default to
internet explorer.

So that information is not stored in the registry somewhere where I could
manually place new entries?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Is there a way to add a new search engine in the customized search bar? In
particular I want to add google maps to the search for a map category.

Thanks.

You could create an Address bar shortcut.
E.g. using Quick Search.exe from the IE5 Web Accessories.


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[Dewey]

You could create an Address bar shortcut.
E.g. using Quick Search.exe from the IE5 Web Accessories.

OK. What are the IE5 web accessories and where do I find them? And do they
work with IE6?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.mspx
Most features work with IE 6.

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on the
blank page
that the Images List click brings up to finally get them. Thorsten Gudera
has
created both German and English "corrected" Versions of imglist.htm which
fix this.
You can contact him here: Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT with @
sign).
For Toggle Images (which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember that
you'll
have to refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page.
(BTW, if you
place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or wherever, you can
also use it
to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling home".)


Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The following is a
(modified)
quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote by Ron
Vernon which outlines the fix: Regards, Jim Byrd


"I have not checked recently if the error has been corrected.
Without looking at your attachments, I assume you have made
adjustments like this old post by Ron Vernon MVP, which I made myself.
------quote
This is a bug in the web accessories.

To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in
WINDOWS\WEB ),
and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

old contents:
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'
..
-----end quote

....Alan

 

[Dewey]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.mspx
Most features work with IE 6.

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on
the blank page
that the Images List click brings up to finally get them. Thorsten
Gudera has
created both German and English "corrected" Versions of imglist.htm
which fix this.
You can contact him here: Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT
with @ sign).
For Toggle Images (which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember
that you'll
have to refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page.
(BTW, if you
place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or wherever, you
can also use it
to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling home".)

Thanks. This worked. I added "gm" for "http//maps.google.com/maps?q=%1"
and it works perfectly.

Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The
following is a (modified)
quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote by Ron
Vernon which outlines the fix: Regards, Jim Byrd

I likely won't be using any of the other features. Thanks again.

 

[artificially.intelligent]

There is a toolbar addon available on
http://www.best-toolbar.com (freeware) that allows you to search over
200 major search engines and portals, maybe it already has the search
engine you wished to add...

http://www.sirseek.com/menu.htm for a new search engine that you can
customise to your look and feel...