How to add remote search function to Windows 7 Explorer

Because of the need of work, Lao Xu often searches the system for the corresponding files, which is naturally done in the resource manager, but sometimes from the network Searching for relevant information on it, it is impossible to switch to the browser every moment. In fact, Lao Xu can add the function of web search to the resource manager:

Visit http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/742-windows-7-search-federation-providers.html You can find many ready-made search connectors here, including Bing, Yahoo, MSNSearch, Google, etc. You can find them here, click the corresponding search icon, IE will automatically download the .osdx of the specified search connector, as shown in Figure 1. Click the “Add” button to complete the installation.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Open the Explorer and you can see the corresponding search connector in the "Favorites" column in the left pane. Select this search connector, enter the corresponding keyword in the search box in the upper right corner. As the character is typed, the resource manager window will immediately display the result of the remote search. The effect is shown in Figure 2. Is it convenient? In a similar way, you can continue to add additional search connectors to the resource manager.