Hi MOL - I'm not sure (along with others apparently) just what it was that
you lost, but I believe that the GooglePreviewIE toolbar perhaps would do
what you need:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/googlepreview-ie.html
"GooglePreviewIE adds a small toolbar to Internet Explorer that displays
website snapshots as thumbnails along with your regular Google and Yahoo
search results. This allows you to get a (small) preview of the site without
having to visit it first. Once installed, the thumbnails will display
automatically with every search you perform. GooglePreviewIE also includes a
pop-up blocker and a menu for quick access to searches of other online
resources such as Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, YouTube and several others.
Freeware"
I use this and find it quite satisfactory. FWIW, this developer also makes
a version for Firefox. See here:
http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/
Note that I have no connection or affiliation with this developer or these
products.
--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/
In Miami Old Lady <
[email protected]> typed:
|| Robert:
||
|| I am running IE6, not IE7, so I cannot see the information you
|| requested, or else I don't know to look for it. I run Windows 2000
|| Professional, SP4 and cannot change to another operating system due
|| to employer's constraints.
||
|| Perhaps you are thinking of another OS or else are much more
|| technically advanced than I am, of course.
||
|| Thanks for the suggestions.
||
|| "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
||
||| message |||| Robert:
||||
|||| Alas! If Microsoft has eliminated the search preview thumbnails
|||| and I am, indeed, beating a dead horse, I am in a lot of trouble.
|||| I will continue to try to work with the Microsoft engineers and
|||| see if they understand that the functionality was necessary for
|||| those of us with handicaps.
|||
|||
||| I think you need to understand that you are dealing with two very
||| different organizations. The original search functionality was
||| provided by MSN.
||| MSN has changed over the years. IE has had to adapt to those
||| changes.
|||
||| One extreme example of those changes is that originally there was
||| a feature in the Search Options called Just go... which was
||| implemented
||| by MSN by forwarding to a search service called RealNames.
||| That's what allowed people to just enter domain names in their
||| Address bar and actually open a relevant page. Now, provided
||| Search from the Address bar is enabled it just results in a search
||| with the default search provider.
|||
|||
||||
|||| Although I had Live Search installed without any notification from
|||| Microsoft through one of their updates, at the time it did not
|||| make me lose the thumbnails. That came later, on an update I just
|||| installed which was dated 08/14/07.
||||
|||| I believe that eliminating functionality should have been clearly
|||| announced when updates were noted. I read all provided with every
|||| update and install them manually, to avoid getting something I do
|||| not want. If one of the updates mentioned the loss of the search
|||| preview thumbnails, I wouldn't have installed it!
|||
|||
||| I think you're just noticing coincidences. Unless you just
||| recently installed IE7 I doubt that updates had anything to do with
||| your observations.
|||
||| To get a better idea of what functionality you had been using please
||| use the Search Assistant Custom... link and tell us what options
||| you would have chosen:
|||
||| E.g. here's the one for EN-US:
|||
|||
http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchcust.htm
|||
||| BTW note the domain name in the above URL.
|||
|||
||||
|||| We'll see where this ends up at!!!!! And thanks for the
|||| explanation.
|||
|||
||| Unfortunately, I think you're starting this quest far too late.
||| Thanks to Google and Microsoft's web news archives apparently being
||| culled I doubt if we can even reconstruct an accurate history of
||| the feature you are looking for. What I'm giving you is mostly my
||| recollections or my reports of my analysis and observations about
||| the Search Assistant feature.
||| I don't know of any source which is a definitive summary of it, let
||| alone what currently remains of it.
|||
|||
||| HTH
|||
||| Robert
||| ---
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