{"id":891,"date":"2009-04-12T19:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2019-05-12T03:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:01:51","slug":"add-google-search-right-click-menu-in-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/add-google-search-right-click-menu-in-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Google Search Option to the Right-Click Menu in Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/ie-icon.gif\" width=\"35\" height=\"35\">Want to search Google for selected text in Internet Explorer via the right-click menu? Here is how to add Google Search option to the context menu in Internet Explorer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Download <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/google.zip\">google.zip<\/a><\/b> and extract the files to a folder<\/p>\n<p>2. Move <b>google.htm<\/b> to <b>C:\\Windows\\Web<\/b> directory<\/p>\n<p>3. Double-click <b>google.reg<\/b> to run it<\/p>\n<p>4. Open a new Internet Explorer window and select the text which you want to search using Google, right-click and then select <b>Search with Google<\/b> option. (Using the option with <b>SHIFT<\/b> key pressed, opens the Google search page in a new Internet Explorer window.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/goog-menuext.png\" width=\"274\" height=\"303\"><\/p>\n<p>Alternately, you may install the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ieaddons.com\/en\/details\/813\/Google_Search_Suggestions\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Search Provider<\/a> (IE7 and above) and set it as the default provider. This also adds the <b>Search with Google<\/b> option to the right-click menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/goog-menuext2.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"284\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to search Google for selected text in Internet Explorer via the right-click menu? Here is how to add Google Search option to the context menu in Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[264,441],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-explorer","tag-internet-explorer","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":989,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/disable-start-navigation-clicking-sound-in-ie\/","url_meta":{"origin":891,"position":0},"title":"How to Disable Start Navigation or the Clicking Sound in Internet Explorer","author":"Ramesh","date":"February 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Start Navigation sound can be sometimes annoying. 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