28.9.1999

From the "You're Invited to a Search Party" department, Lockergnomaniac Rictor Elionzo discovered a shortcut to the search engines in some versions of IE. With versions 4.x and higher, you can type a "?" and your keyword(s) in the address line of IE, and it'll start searching through your default search engine. If you want to specifically search Yahoo, instead of the "?" use "y" -- "av" for Alta Vista -- "ex" for Excite -- "wc" for WebCrawler -- "ly" Lycos -- "mc" for MetaCrawler -- "hb" For HotBot. Now, I tried this trick in IE5 (Windows 98 SE) and it didn't work, but it may work for other (older) versions.