Internet Explorer’s default search features are anemic at best. Internet searching can be made better by installing a Google Toolbar and other specialized search toolbars and powering up the default search. Internet Explorer’s default search feature leaves a lot to be desired. But there’s a lot you can do for better Internet searching from your desktop. You can get search toolbars that integrate into your browser, and you can customize the Internet Explorer search feature as well.
The best way to empower Internet searches is to install special toolbars from two popular search engines, Google and Ask Jeeves. The Google Toolbar is the better of the two, and not only because it’s a better search engine. It also has several extra features.The great thing about the Google Toolbar is, well, that it’s Google. It avails you all of Google’s functionality without even visiting the site. Just install it and type your search term in the toolbar and you are done. In fact, you even get an extra on the toolbar that you don’t get on Google itself—the PageRank feature that tells you how popular the current site you’re visiting is.The best of the Google Toolbar’s best features is that it lets you do a Google search through the site you’re currently on, a particularly useful tool if the site doesn’t have a search box, or if the search on the site is a poor one. If you’re concerned about your privacy, you should disable the PageRank option. When you enable this option, the Google Toolbar tracks the page you’re on.
