If you're not familiar with search plugins, look at the box on the top-right of your Firefox window. Firefox comes with a few of them and the default one searches at Google. Click the arrow between the "G" and the text box and you get a list of other search plugins, like Yahoo!, Amazon and Wikipedia. Click the install link and you'll get a popup that asks you if you want to install it. Accept and you'll get a new icon in your list of search plugins. Then just type the text you want to search for and Firefox will take you straight to the search results page. The search query goes directly to the site you're searching, not necessarily back to the site that installed the search plugin. If you're looking for info on how I make them or how to make your own, there's a helpful page in the Mozilla Developer Center (specifically the Technorati example they point to makes it easy), and they've got another page that explains how to offer a search plugin from a web page. Some of my search plugins work on Internet Explorer 7 and some only work for Firefox. This usually happens because Internet Explorer doesn't support the HTTP POST method for searches. I recommend Firefox or Opera as a web browser anyway. If you'd like to switch, you can get Firefox here, Firefox with the Google Toolbar here, or Opera here.