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How can I add a YouTube search to my site?

I'm addicted. First it was America's Funniest Home Videos, now it's YouTube. There are just too darn many hilarious videos on the site. What I really want, though, is to be able to add a YouTube search to my own...

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How can I add a new search engine to Firefox?

I think we're kindred spirits, Dave. I spend way too much of my time on the Internet Movie DB and would like to cut out a step: is there any way in Firefox that I can have the little search...

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How do I add a Lijit search widget to my site?

I know you have shown how to add a Google search box and such to my site (see Add Google search to your site) and even saw that you've written about how to utilize Google Custom Search (see Add Google...

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How can I create predefined Amazon search links?

I read your note about how to add an Amazon.com search box to your site and it's very cool, but what I want to know is: What if I want the search to only search a certain keyword, Example "Honda...

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How do I change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)?

I've been running Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser and really like it overall, except for one problem: by default searches in the search box go to MSN Search, and I want to use Google. How do I change...

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Which search engines are most popular?

What I was wondering is are their stats on what percentage of users use which search engines. Out of Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, AOL, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and LookSmart what percentage does of the users does Google have and so on....

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Can I add a Wikipedia search box to my Web site or blog?

I found instructions for adding a cool Google search box to an html/xhtml site, here on askdavetaylor. I want to add a similar Wikipedia search box to my website. Any advice on where I can get code to do this?...

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How do I add a Drugstore.com search to my Web site?

I really like the Google search box you demonstrate on this site, but I want to add a search box on my site for Drugstore.com, and can't figure out how to do it. I thought I had it all working,...

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How can I improve my Google results?

I've been reading lots of different material and I'm convinced that better search engine results will help me drive more visitors to my site and hopefully turn more of them into customers. What I don't understand is how to do...

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