Search process shortened by typing in Internet Explorer address bar.

An address bar search is a quick search instated in Internet Explorer address bar. As a default feature, users call search engines to look for information on any subject. With address bar search, users can directly pass the argument to search, in the address bar of the browser, and evade the step of calling search engines.

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Users look for all kinds of information on internet. In general, information is searched by opening up a search engine and passing the desired arguments. Internet explorer 6.0 and above have a new feature called address bar search. This setting enables you to search for information in a search engine, entered directly in internet explorer address bar. If you have a search engine service you use a lot, you can create a shortcut to that service. For example, most people use google to search the internet, and google uses a standard address format to search for things, so you can cut short that format into keywords and arguments. The address format google uses is - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s. You can define a keyword g, representing google as your search engine, plus registry hacks as the argument that it should search. You enter g registry hacks in the internet explorer address bar, and then google comes up with the results page for the words registry and hacks. %s in the above url refers to the arguments passed with keyword g in address bar. Similarly, you can create shortcuts for many other search services frequently used. This saves time when you do research on the web. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Create a subkey with the keyword name you'd like to type in the address bar to access the engine, say g for google in the above example. Now, right-click and modify the default value of newly created subkey with the engines address format url (http://www.google.com/search?q=%s in our case). Refresh view of your computer for the changes to take effect. Note: other usable search services: abbreviations search urls gg (google groups) http://groups.google.com/groups?lnk=hpsg&q=%s a (alta vista) http://www.altavista.com/q?q=%s d (dictionary) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.