Different news have been generated by Microsoft, which suggests the next presence of a completely free operating system for mobile devices (Tablets), which theoretically, come to have Bing as the default search engine in your Internet Explorer browser.
Now, Can any search engine be used in Internet Explorer? Although it is true that this feature can be handled very easily in Mozilla Firefox from the custom area that is located on the right side of the browser, in Internet Explorer the same situation is not presented in such a way, having to adopt a few tricks to achieve our goal.
Using keywords to program Internet Explorer in our searches
If we are using Mozilla Firefox we will have the opportunity to admire that to the right side of the browser there is a very important element that we can modify at any time depending on our need for work; for example, if we click on the small inverted down arrow, all the search engines that we have programmed will appear immediately at a certain time, being able to choose the one that is our preference to use it in personalized searches; for this reason, some suggest that this Internet browser "takes the crown" in terms of its use with different search engines.
But if our predilection is to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and in that browser, we want to carry out personalized searches with another specific engine, indirectly We could do it but relying on a simple tool, which we recommend download from the following link; Being a portable application, it does not need to be installed in our Windows operating system, only having to handle certain parameters correctly so that it works correctly.
The image that you can admire in the upper part belongs to the interface of this application that has the name of IE Search Customizer, same that offers us a few fields to fill and that must be handled correctly in order to program Internet Explorer with "keywords"; the first options you should work with are the following:
- Add It will help us to program a new search engine in Microsoft's browser.
- Edit allows us to perform an edit of any search engine that we have previously added.
- remove instead it removes any that we have added as long as we no longer need them.
- Export generates a Windows registry file with all the search engines that we have created previously.
Obviously we must start with the first button (Add) to create a new search option to Internet Explorer; Once we select them, another window will appear with a different interface, which we must handle in the following way:
- Name your Search. Here we can place the name of our preferred search engine (we suggest you check the alternatives to Google we mentioned above).
- Enter an Alias. We only have to put a short word (the shorter the better) that will act as a "keyword".
- Enter the Search URL. In this space we will have to place the URL (complete) of our search engine followed by %s as suggested by the bottom comment in the window.
Regarding this last aspect, we must mention the following situation, due to how difficult it could be for some users to use the URL of a specific search engine; It is recommended to go to any Internet browser and write the URL of the search engine; We may notice that a large number of elements are automatically added that, for us, do not make sense. To all the content of this URL we will have to copy and later paste in the space of the last field of the previous window followed by the option that we also suggest.
After having carried out this task we have to click on the button Add New Search so that our search engines are programmed in Internet Explorer.
Where is the trick?
Well now, we will only have to open the Internet Explorer browser and write in the space of the bar (of the URL) the keyword followed by what we want to find in our search engine personalized; In other words, if we want to use Duck or Google to find information about Windows 9, in that space we will have to write the following:
- Duck windows 8 (and then Enter) or
- Google windows 9 (and then Enter)
We will be able to admire that immediately results provided by the search engines that we have programmed will appear.