Searching with Google Chrome

If you're trying out Chrome and missing options for net searching, have no fear, since there are actually plenty of ways of using different search engines - they're just slightly hidden. When you install Chrome the installation will ask you which default search engine you want to use - that's your first option for setting up search on the new browser. The next way that you have of playing around with your search engines is to right mouse click in the 'omnibar' and choose 'Edit search engines'. This will then present you with a screen that provides you with a list of engines that you have available (via your choices in IE or Firefox) and you can also add new ones. Alternatively, click on the spanner in the top right corner, choose options and take a peek in the default search option. If that doesn't suit, or you want to have access to other engines without changing your default start to type in the name of the engine that you're interested in until it pops up as an option for you. So if I want to search using Exalead for example, I can simply type ex, up comes www.exalead.com as an option, then click the tab bar and the Omnibar will change to 'Search Exalead'. Of course, the interesting thing here is that this is just going to search the basic option. I suspect that engines are going to have to think about providing ways of running command line searching for people who are not going to actually go directly to the site in order to search. If you have favourite add-on options (one of mine for example allows me to click and drag some text in a Firefox tab to search on) then I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for a while before these are created and put into place.