I appreciate Shaggy mentioning one of my tutorials on his blog today. I attempted to leave a comment on his blog, but I could never get it to post. He was talking about changing the msn search to default to google. Since I could not leave it there, here was my response:
Thanks for the mention. Google is still winning the search engine war. Here's the exact link to changing the default search engine in the MSN Desktop Search:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips888.html
You guys probably won't need the step-by-step directions. Just do this for google...
In MSN Desktop Search select...
Desktop Search Options -> General -> Other Search Services -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$w
I agree with you completely regarding the tab browsing. I wish they would have left it in beta for a while longer... and only rolled it out once it was more stable and flicker free. Overall, however, this new search tool is my favorite new Microsoft progie this year.