Tip: Search with Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)

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I would like to share some tips on searching with IE9.

1) Pressing Ctrl+E moved the caret to the address bar following a “? “. Entering a search term and pressing Enter passed the search criteria to the search provider you specified (the default is Bing of course).

You have to make sure the following option is enabled:

Internet Options | General | Search, checking “Search in the address bar”

You can manage the search provider by going to:

Internet Options | General | Search, clicking "Find more search providers..." to add more.

2) Sometimes System administrators may have legitimate reasons to block search in the address bar. In this case, you can still get it through the custom SearchURL feature (which requires that you manually modify your registry). For example, if you set
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\b]
@="https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s"
then you can query Bing by typing “b <query>” into the address bar. This still works with “Search in the address bar” disabled.

And you can also search in the explorer address bar:

And in the taskbar:

More information:

You can also set more SearchURL, for example:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\MSKB]@="https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\MSN]@="https://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=%s"

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    @jocel_10000, my pleasure.

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2011
    Thanks so much for the great information. I always love to read more about social media and marketing. I have my own site. I hope to offer tips as well. Thank you. marketing-mistress.com/JoinMyNewsletter.html

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2011
    Thank you so much. I did not know that I had to enable "Search in the address bar".

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2011
    This really tells me nothing and yet also offers no practical solutions that I could apply to pretty much anything whatsoever and all together it produces a deep and long-lasting satisfaction that won't rinse away. Thanks Commander Superwhiz, you've really made my day proceed in generally the same way as it was before. Oh, and I would also like to commend Stephanie for being a real human and most definitely not being an autopost script linking to what is most certainly a great newsletter that does not try to sell you things. Life's swell.