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As people spend more time online, their demands on the browser have increased. Since Microsoft
delivered Internet Explorer 7, millions of people around the world have taken advantage of its tabbed
browsing, the built-in search box, and other features to improve their Web browsing experience. Internet
Explorer 8 takes these features a step further to help meet your browsing expectations.
Search providers can provide images
within contextual suggestions.
Instant and Visual Search
We’ve improved the Search box in Internet Explorer 8 so that search providers can deliver rich, contex-
tual search suggestions in real time. As you type a search term, you’ll see relevant suggestions that can
be categorized and may even include
images. For instance, you might nd
images of products from your favor-
ite store as you search, or stock charts
from your online brokerage account
in the Search Box drop-down list.
Internet Explorer 8 provides the tech-
nology, but the choice of what to
show is made by the search provider.
Popular sites such as Bing, Wikipedia,
Amazon.com, The New York Times
online, Yahoo!, eBay, OneRiot, ESPN,
Photobucket, and TinyPic are all taking
advantage of the new search capabili-
ties in Internet Explorer 8. In addition,
because people often use Search to
get back to sites that they’ve visited
before, Internet Explorer 8 includes matches from your Favorites and History in the bottom of the
Search Box drop-down list.
The enhanced Instant Search box in Internet Explorer 8 is more helpful than before, making it easier to
nd interesting content and returning more relevant search results. As you type a search term, you’ll
see real-time search suggestions—including images and rich text—from the search provider you’ve
chosen. The Instant Search box will even display results from your Favorites and browsing history. A
quick pick menu at the bottom of the Instant Search box lets you switch back and forth between your
favorite Web sites and search provider’s search suggestions with a click of the mouse.