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Inside Internet Explorer 7

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October 18, 2006 11:40 AM PDT

Search engine options

Like Mozilla Firefox and Opera, IE 7 has a built-in Internet search box in the top tier of the interface. If you install Internet Explorer on a clean system, the search box defaults to the little-used Windows Live.com site; however, if you upgrade and you already have a preference for, say, Google.com, Internet Explorer will respect your wishes and ask whether you want to continue using Google as your default search engine. If, on a clean system, you wish to change your preference from Windows Live.com to Google.com, IE 7 takes you to a search engine page where you can add additional search engines (oddly, Google is one of a limited few sites that do not include colorful logos, so look hard if that's the site you want). Once it's added, you still must click to make Google default, but the process is relatively painless. Unlike Firefox, IE 7 does not display search suggestions from your chosen search engine.

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