Put the search bar back on the left-hand side of the window again

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Mike G - 25 Jun 2007 21:18 GMT

I absolutely love the fact that IE6 lets me perform a search in the search
bar, and gives me a "check list" of results down the left-hand side of the
screen, while I review the results pages one at a time in the rest of the
screen. Best off, the "check list" marks each site I view by changing the
text color, so I know which results I've already reviewed. This system works
wonderfully, and MS seems to acknowledge that this system works, because the
history and favorites in IE7 still work that way. Unfortunately, the search
feature doesn't. Why is that? Why can't IE7 be set up to allow the user to
chose if they want to perform searches this way, instead of simply taking
away this capability all together?

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Rob ^_^ - 26 Jun 2007 06:23 GMT

Hi Mike,

It does. Tools>Internet Options - Advanced tab, enable 'Allow web sites to
use the Side Search Pane'

Granted it is inconvenient and could be better. You will find an extensive
listing at
http://www.iecustomizer.com/?url=iepanels

Live Side Search Bars (work great with IE7)
http://www.iecustomizer.com/?url=iepanels/?txtProvider=*live

Google Side Search Bars (work like crap in IE7.... Googles fault... they are
not following web standards)

http://www.iecustomizer.com/?url=iepanels/?txtProvider=*google

You can compare the side search bar behaviour of Mozilla browsers at

http://www.iecustomizer.com/?url=iepanels/MozillaSideBars.asp

Regards.

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Mike G - 28 Jan 2008 07:06 GMT

Well, I tried some of these, but they all seem to show the search results in
the main page. The whole advantage to the IE 6 search bar was that both the
search window AND the results were in the side bar. The whole point is to
keep the list of search results open while browsing through each of the
results in the main part of the window.

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