Nathan at InsideMicrosoft compares how smooth Internet Explorer 7 makes adding custom search providers:

Any search engine, installed with little effort. No directory, no hoping your special site is listed. Just search, paste, name and click. I only wish Opera did this, and wonder why the hell Mozilla never figured this one out. Seriously, 9,219 search engines. Are they insane?

Some might recall Microsoft was criticized unfairly by Google for how difficult they supposedly made it to change default search. Nathan’s right, check out the IE7 adding custom search provider page. It doesn’t get much easier than this. Kudos to the IE7 team.

If you are reading this with Internet Explorer 7, Click here to add Hmm search. This will allow you to easily search across the archives of this blog conveniently within IE7. On the homepage under the search box there are quick links for the Google toolbar and adding to Firefox search dropdown too.