Getting Google search back into Internet Explorer

Back when Microsoft released IE 7 you could choose a search engine. The page remains the same but unless you goto it during first launch, you can’t select a decent search engine like Google.

This is really only relavent if you only use Internet Explorer and not Firefox, Chrome or Safari.

To save spending days finding that original link or copy/paste it, here is the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-intl/default.mspx

This takes you to a page with a list of search providers & lets you change from Live/Bing to Google or other. Probably a good idea to remove Bing or Live search from IE after you add another (and set it to default). Unfortunatly, Bing is re-added each time IE is updated so keep this link handy!

I’m not sure if this works in IE 9 or 10 yet. Not high on my to-try list.

Later, I will provide ADM scripts for making Google the default search engine in an Active Directory environment.

EDIT 19/09/2011: I can confirm the above still works in IE 9