Change the default search engine in Internet explorer
May 5th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 1786 times, 1 so far today
Default search engine of Microsoft Internet explorer is MSN. But there are better search engines available. I like yahoo.com and you may have your own preference. Recently I came across article that indicated how to change the default search engine through registry. Open registry editor by going to START-RUN and entering regedit and navigate to following three keys separately and change it as shown below:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]
“Search Page”=”http://www.google.com”
“Search Bar”=”http://www.google.com/ie”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchURL]
“”=”http://www.google.com/keyword/%s”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearch]
“SearchAssistant”=”http://www.google.com/ie”
(This example is specific to google but there is a Microsoft article that I found on their support site which described show to do it for many other engines. Read all of it at: http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q198279)
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Very useful tip. Thanks.
Only caveat. My registry did not contain the last key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearch
However, it wasn't needed. The changes to the other keys did the trick. Thanks for the great tip!
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