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One week ago Del.Icio.Us released their new beta extension for Internet Explorer (6.0,7.0 and 8.0). I am using the IE extension button for a while at work & home to tag and group my Internet favorites. To me this is one of best tools you should have when using Internet. In the past I struggled many times with different kind of favorites folders and sync those with Firefox and vise-versa. The features and look and feel were already available for Firefox and now finally with IE.

To download the plugin please go to http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/05/internet-explorer-and-delicious.html

Couple times I tried to get my IE Search box customized with my own search providers. I read the AddSearchProvider Method from MSDN website and than created couple of my favorite website to have them in my search box available.

One of my XML files I created for Networknet.nl Search Provider. Create your own xml file and store it on your webserver; create new button to add the Search Provider you specified in the XML file e.g. .

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
    <ShortName>Networknet.nl</ShortName>
    <Description>Networknet.nl Blog Search</Description>
    <Url type=”text/html” template=”http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/?s={searchTerms}&rls=com.microsoft:{language}&ie={inputEncoding}&oe={outputEncoding}&startIndex={startIndex?}&startPage={startPage}” />
</OpenSearchDescription>

<INPUT TYPE=”button” VALUE=”Del.Icio.Us by word” onClick=’window.external.AddSearchProvider(“http://www.networknet.nl/apps/content/searchproviders/del-icio-us.xml”);’>

Basically try to find the search string for the website your are trying to query and add the {searchTerms} in the XML file.

Search Provider	Click to add to your IE configuration

The result. In IE CRTL-E and type the word you are looking for and change the search provider.