Monday, June 25, 2007

Search thewantad.com Without Coming To Our Page

If you're using either Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7, you might have noticed a small box in the upper right corner of your browser. This box lets you search the contents of a website without first having to go to the site. We've written a plug-in for your browser so you can search our ads more easily using this box. Installing it is a breeze - just go to our site.



If you're using Firefox, you'll notice the logo in the box has a bluish halo around it.



Click in the logo that's there and select 'Add "The WANT Advertiser'.



For IE7 users, the down arrow just to the right of the box will turn orange.



Click the arrow and select "Add Search Providers," then choose "The WANT Advertiser"


That's all there is to installing it.


Later, when you want to search our site, you can just select "The WANT Advertiser" from the list of search providers, type in your search term, and hit enter - the results page will load just as if you had gone to our site and searched.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

How about putting a link to the plug-in right on this blog posting?

Neil said...

Joe -

The plugin is available here. The only reason I didn't link to it directly in the post is that, for most people, using the built-in installer in their browser is going to be easier than manually downloading and installing.

-Neil