With this tweak you can search Google by type “g searchterms” into the IE address bar. Other shortcuts: gg (Google Groups), ggd (Google Groupe limited to dotnet newgroups), mskb (Microsoft Knowledgebase), wiki (Wikipedia). Save this to a .reg file and double-click.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
“provider”=”"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g]
@=”http://www.google.com/search?q=%s”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\gg]
@=”http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\ggd]
@=”http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&as_ugroup=*dotnet*”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\kb]
@=”http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;%s”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\mskb]
@=”http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;%s”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\ms]
@=”http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Query=%s&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=150″
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\wiki]
@=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go”
” “=”+”
“#”=”%23″
“&”=”%26″
“?”=”%3F”
“+”=”%2B”
“=”=”%3D”