iPhoneer Blog

March 29, 2010

Create a custom search provider in IE8 for your favorite sites

In Internet Explorer 8 is pretty easy to add a custom search provider for your favorite sites, so you can search on your site using the standard search bar on IE8.

In our company we have a governance tool and several times a day I need to search for requests given their number.
  1. Someone send me request ID to review.
  2. I open the governance tool.
  3. I click search request.
  4. I enter the request ID and click search.
To add this search in IE8 I just needed to repeat the previous process using TEST as the request ID on step 1, and then copy the URL of the webpage from the step 4 and paste it on this webpage

And that's it, after you enter a name and press Install you can type you can search on your site using the standard search bar on IE8.

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