What’s New for IE8 Search

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a-foton » What???s New for IE8 Search — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:07:34 GMT

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re: What’s New for IE8 Search

hAl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:59:23 GMT

Actually Live search is not providing suggestions at all.

The managing search providers dialog states that Search suggestions are not even available for Live search

See dialog:

http://www.imageno.com/lr64ysp86y3hpic.html

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Khristopher — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:11:32 GMT

You removed my favourite thing about the search bar.

You used to be able to type in your search term, and then press tab, and then press the first letter of the search provider, and it would search that provider instantly. If there was more than one provider that started with the same name, then you just had to press the down arrow to choose another one and press enter. It was quick and painless. I miss it.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Khristopher — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:36:12 GMT

Here is my feedback on Connect:

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=367876

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

game kid — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:00:45 GMT

Agree with Khristopher's first comment (it REALLY sped things up wrt search), type+TAB+letter should be brought back.

I do like Search Query Synchronization. I noticed it months ago and I think it helps the browser and page feel tighter-knit, as though the search bar was lifted from the page to the bar. (Cheesy, yes, but my feelings nonetheless.)

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

JackyMao — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:40:28 GMT

What a wonderful IE search is!

As in my mind, we can get more with in in address space. not just be a search space, but also a powerful command space.

Seems like: "buy from amazon: notebook"

"blogs: Sanlu naifen"

"run: photoshop"

"blablablabla: what to do on Moon's festival night."

It can be the entry of computer power (or internet power).

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

JackyMao — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:40:43 GMT

What a wonderful feature!

As in my mind, we can get more with in in address space. not just be a search space, but also a powerful command space.

Seems like: "buy from amazon: notebook"

"blogs: Sanlu naifen"

"run: photoshop"

"blablablabla: what to do on Moon's festival night."

It can be the entry of computer power (or internet power).

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

JackyMao — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:40:54 GMT

What a wonderful feature!

As in my mind, we can get more with in address space. not just be a search space, but also a powerful command space.

Seems like: "buy from amazon: notebook"

"blogs: Sanlu naifen"

"run: photoshop"

"blablablabla: what to do on Moon's festival night."

It can be the entry of computer power (or internet power).

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

JackyMao — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:43:13 GMT

I am so sorry~, it act so slow that i click on the submit for 3 times~!

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

sonicdoommario — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:12:47 GMT

Hey IE team, great job with the search additions. Just one tiny request.

Can you make it so the search provider grabs the favicon from the site and displays it for custom search providers? This only works for the select engines, like Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, etc.

I have a few custom search engines added (like GameFAQs, The Weather Channel Gold, Zdaemon, etc), and they all have the little globe icon. I think it'd be nice if custom search providers can go to the site, grab the favicon, and display it.

Just a minor suggestion, but it'd look a lot more smooth.

Thanks.

Keep up the great move.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Sterling — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:26:06 GMT

Love the new search box in IE8 Beta 2. Thing that seems to be missing, though, is the ability to hold down the Ctrl and then using the up or down arrow key, change search engines.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

EricLaw [MSFT] — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:02:56 GMT

Sterling-- CTRL+Up/Down appears to work just fine. What OS are you using?

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

someone — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:35:41 GMT

The performance while managing search providers or moving them up-down is very sluggish. The UI would be better if you change the 'Move up-down' & 'Alphanumeric sort' links to buttons. The cursor changes from hyperlink cursor to normal mouse pointer do not take place quickly. The providers also don't move quickly enough. Instead of making users move them by clicking buttons, why not allow drag and drop? For those providers which don't show or don't have an icon, you should allow users to set their custom icon or lift the Favicon of the site; it makes searching from QuickPick very easier.

Also is search history cleared along with regular history? There should be a button to clear only the search history. And Ctrl+Down seems to be working right on my IE8 beta 2 on XPSP3.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Mantas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:38:17 GMT

Secondary search providers and being able to access them that easily - great feature.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Esben2000 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:24:11 GMT

Does anyone know where a bug in IE8 can be reported?

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Jonah — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:37:06 GMT

There here should be a way to type in your search text and then change among search providers to preview their search suggestions or visual search results without submitting the search to the web page. Or did I miss something?

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Ries van Moorselaar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:27:15 GMT

I do like the new search capabilities and the accelerators as well. However, there's one accelerator missing in my opinion; and that's a URL accelerator. When selecting a URL, I would like to have an option to go to that URL (even when it is not technically a hyperlink). Hope this will be implemented in the RTM.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Sterling — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:57:46 GMT

@ Eric Law [MSFT]: Hi. I'm running Windows XP (SP3) Media Center Edition but it now appears that an addon (IE7Pro) is disabling the Ctrl+Up/Down feature. Sorry, my bad.

Keep up the great work with IE, it's looking awesome!

Something unbelievable just happened.

Murtaza — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:56:29 GMT

I couldn’t find the issue on Connect and I can’t post new issues on Connect right now, so I am posting here.

I got the “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site - Operation Aborted” modal dialog in Standards Mode while visiting the following link:

http://www.crn.com/software/204300352

After dismissing the dialog, I got redirected to the IE error page like it used to in IE7. Interestingly, the page is loading fine when emulating IE7. Now according to this blog, wasn’t this behavior fixed for IE8?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

mike — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:01:10 GMT

it's nice that you guys added this functionality but i would have prefer a download manager that can download video files

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Eduardo valencia — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:18:59 GMT

Please add download manager to internet Explorer 8 !!!!!!

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Keith Hill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:13:53 GMT

I really like the Visual Search feature but how do I change search providers after I have picked one? Say I pick Amazon and get Amazon's pretty list but don't find it. I want to be able to select another provider and get the visual search drop down. The biggest problem is that I start typing before I remember that I need to select my desired search provider. Then when I pick it, I don't get the visual search, IE8 just takes straight to the search provider's result page. Doh!

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Keith Hill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:15:13 GMT

+1 for Eduardo suggestion. Please add a good download manager to IE8. Preferably a single window and have it use BITS for reliable downloads.

What’s New for IE8 Search

New Zealand IE8 Taskforce — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:08:59 GMT

If you’re already using IE8 Beta 2, you’ve probably already seen the new search features available in

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Xepol — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:23:33 GMT

What happened to the ability to add custom search providers? It appears to be missing from the website now.

Frankly, without it, the Google browser is starting to look like a better option. Please add it back.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

EricLaw [MSFT] — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:30:11 GMT

@Xepol: All major search engines already have a search file constructed for their site. You can still use this page to build one if you need to: http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/searchbuilder.asp

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Shawn — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:44:37 GMT

Why does the "More accelerators" sub-menu repeat the same choices as the first menu? That makes it hard to find the one I'm looking for (which obviously wasn't on the first list, or I wouldn't be using the sub-menu in the first place).

That does not fit the Vista goal of "clear and concise". Seriously, please take out the duplicates!

OpenSearch - Search Functionality

Creative Jar Blog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:04:50 GMT

OpenSearch - Search Functionality

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Felixz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:22:02 GMT

One thing missing in accelerators is ability to select text link: somesite.com\somepage.htm

and have an option "Go to that address"

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Sebastien Zimmermann [MSFT] — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:50:15 GMT

@Kristopher: We changed the Tab behavior since there is now a new piece of UI in the search box--the drop-down. Tab allows you to switch between the different sections of the drop-down when it is visible.

You may still access the search box menu as you were before by using Ctrl+DownArrow instead of Tab. Note that this Ctrl+DownArrow behavior was available in IE7 as well.

Hope this helps.

@Esben2000: This bug is know and will be fixed in the final version of IE.

@hAl: The Live service is still in Beta. This works for me when the language is [en-US] (in Tools->Internet Options->General->Language).

@Shawn: Thanks. I have forwarded your feedback to the appropriate team.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

EricLaw [MSFT] — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:05:22 GMT

@Felixz: You can use the "Linkify And Open" feature of IEToys to do this. http://www.enhanceie.com/ietoys/

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

hAl — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:41:28 GMT

[quote]@hAl: The Live service is still in Beta. This works for me when the language is [en-US] (in Tools->Internet Options->General->Language). [/quote]

- Tried adding [en-US] and readding search provider. Result => no search suggestions for Live search

- Then tried removing original language and readding search provider. Result => Live search did indeed provide search suggestions

- Added back original languange and moved it to top. Result => Live search did no longer provide search suggestions

- Move original language back and [[en-US] tot top. Live search did indeed provide search suggestions

Concluding: [en-US] needs to be top listed languages (in Tools->Internet Options->General->Languages) for Live Search suggestions in particular to work.

In contrast for instance Wikipedia suggestions works with other languages as well or even indepedant of language.

Hello, World: Getting Started with IE8 Visual Search

IEBlog — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:10:34 GMT

Hello, My name is Sébastien Zimmermann. I’m the developer owner for the Visual Search Feature , which

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Lee — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:42:03 GMT

Hi - I am finding that the search history is not cleared of website history along witht he main delete browsing history function. It is maintained as a suggested site even after clearing history. Is this a bug? You should be able to clear both at the same time.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Esben2000 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:21:08 GMT

@Sebastien

Great! Thank you for the answer :-)

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

geldlening — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:37:08 GMT

Thank Sharon! Looking good, as usual. The search suggestions are a great addition to the browser.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Robert — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:59:59 GMT

So far, so nice. But all browsers are getting slower. Every update makes them bigger, nicer and - slower. Why is fast not the number one term? An lightweight, easy and fast IE. Doesn't that sound great?

Can you trust "images" from sites?

Chris Quirke — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:04:55 GMT

I have to ask; if we allow sites to squirt images into the Visual Search contents, can we trsut these not to exploit exposed surfaces?

What types of images are permitted, and is there type checking?

Can one disable this, if one suddenly has to?

I'm thinking of recent WMF, GIF, GDIPlus etc. exploits.

My favorite links from the 3rd week of September 2008

YESChandana -Blog — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:36:59 GMT

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re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Sebastien Zimmermann [MSFT] — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:04:57 GMT

@Robert: Performance is one of our top priorities for IE8, please read the following blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/26/ie8-performance.aspx

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Sebastien Zimmermann [MSFT] — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:27:13 GMT

@Lee: Thanks. I am passing your feedback along.

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

harry — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:41:29 GMT

With only a single search provider selected you don't need the quickpik box ...its annoying ...if you don't use it

re: What’s New for IE8 Search

Ray — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:57:49 GMT

Just to let you know.

With IE8 my mouse forward button stopped working! I have it set to "CLOSE" and I miss it a lot.

My favorite links from the 3rd week of September 2008

|| yeschandana || — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:05:02 GMT

My favorite links from the 3rd week of September 2008

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