One gimmick is that the new IE 8 will come with search arrangements with a number of content-related partners. Interesting. But wouldn’t it be a lot more fun if Microsoft turned IE into an e-book standards-compliant reader when you wanted it to be? Ain’t gonna happen, but a TeleBlogger can dream.
An intriguing feature: "Search suggestions." And now a few more details from Forbes:
The new browser comes with a search box in the upper right-hand corner and, just below that, a row of tiny logos for various search destinations, such as Yahoo, Ebay and MySpace. You can select which destinations you want to include here.
If your search will likely end up in Wikipedia, for instance, with a single click over a little "W" you can search only that encyclopedia. Amazon.com displays items for sale. The New York Times shows snippets of stories. So far 27 Web sites have joined the drop-down column, including Facebook and Digg.
Microsoft is, uncharacteristically, keeping its hands off, giving Web sites the option to serve up results and customize how they appear. It also magnanimously lets those sites take all the revenue from ads alongside the results. That’s a sly stab at Google’s business, though this kind of searching–where users already know where they want to go–doesn’t yield especially lucrative ads for Google…
Related: Techmeme roundup and IE beta download page.
The custom search capabilities of Firefox are way beyond that and have been for a long time (since v2 at least but some of the capabilities may have been in v1). You can:
1) Click on the drop down beside the seach area in Firefox to view a menu of search providers. Click the bottommost entry (Manage Search Engines…) to bring up a dialog with a link that will take you to a lengthy list of available search plugins.
2) Beyond that, most any site can be turned into a search engine directly accessible from Firefox. Here’s how to add a custom search for TeleRead to Firefox.
– Go to the TeleRead home page and right click on the Site Search field (where you would type your search). The menu that pops up will have “Add a Keyword for this Search…”. Select that option.
– Type the name of your search (doesn’t matter what) and a keyword (e.g. TR) and hit OK.
– Now hit Ctrl+L (Cmd+L on Mac) to go to the location bar or click on it. Type in “TR sony reader” and you’ll immediately get the search results for this site for that search.
3) Be sure to visit the Firefox tips page for a quick overview of a bunch of tips like that that can improve your experience: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/
Internet Explorer 8 is so much better than the previous version of internet explorer browser. it is more stable and loads faster.
i love Internet Explorer 8 because it is so much stable that the previous versions of IE. IE7 sometimes freezes and causes blue screens on my PC.
i am a firefox user more than an internet explorer user but it seems that Internet explorer 8 is very stable and it its loading time for webpages is faster too.