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Public Class GeoffAppleby

Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart
Want To Make a Search Provider?

This is quite neat. When the non-RTM builds of IE7 were floating around, you had the opportunity to write your own search providers for your website (or other sites) if you couldn't find one already.

I went through the effort of writing one (ok, so it wasn't that hard :) and also making it autodetectable for visitors to cranky goblin. But what's cool is that the people behind the IE7 web site have made it extremely easy to make them.

If you follow the 'Find More Providers' menu option from the dropdown next to the search box in IE7, you go to a page that gives links to a lot of different ones. Now it's been upgraded to include the ability to create your own on the fly, just by pasting in a URL and hitting submit. Sweet.

Worth checking out.

Posted: Monday, 23 October 2006 9:16 AM by Geoff Appleby
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