Need To Change Your Search Engine Default In Internet Explorer?
Posted by remoteadminservices on September 7, 2008
For those of you who have Internet Explorer 7, you might have noticed the little search box on the upper right hand corner of the browser. By default it is set to Live Search, but you can change it. Heres how:
1. Click the arrow by the search field and select, ‘Find More Providers’. A Microsoft webpage will open up.
2. You have two categories of search engines, select one or more and select, “Add Provider”.
3. If you use none of the browsers listed, open a separate tab to your browser and type in all caps TEST. Copy the search results URL at the top of the browser and go back to the Microsoft page. Paste in the field provided. Then type the name of the search engine in the second field and click “Install”. Go to the drop down arrow by the search field in IE7 and your selected search engine should be listed.
4. To make your search engine of choice you default, again, click the drop down menu by the search field, select “Change Search Defaults” Highlight your browser, and click “Set Default”. This is also where you can remove unwanted search engines.
I use Goodsearch, a Yahoo-based search engine as my preferred browser so as to raise money for my kid’s school. If the searches are not up to my standards (very rare), I click down to Google and try again. It only takes a few extra seconds. Even better, I removed both search engines off my browser at launch, which in turn now loads faster. Originally I had 8 tabs at launch.
