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Default Search Settings in the Internet Explorer Browser

Here's the other option you're given when you click on the Customize button: Choose a Single Search Service. You've got quite a few to choose from here:

  • AltaVista
  • AOL Search
  • Bigfoot
  • Euroseek
  • Excite
  • Infospace
  • Lycos
  • Switchboard
  • Yahoo
  • LookSmart
  • Overture
  • and of course, MSN Search.
Pick the one you'd like your default searches to go through and press "Ok." It's easy to come back in and change this any time you want; just follow the steps that you've already done in this tutorial.
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