Here’s a cool trick I just found. Many of you may already know about this one, but I just found it and I think it’s pretty darn slick.

Google provides a lot of flexibility with it’s search. If you have the Google Toolbar installed, you can customize it further with the addition of buttons. There are over 1000 buttons availabe in the Google Button Gallery.

But here’s the twist… You can create your own custom button for any site you want, as long as it has a search field. Here’s how it works. Go to any site you like and find their search field. You can do a right mouse click in the search field and choose “Generate Custom Search”. This will start an install dialog that will load a custom search button into your toolbar.

The result is that now you can type a search into your Google Toolbar and click your newly made custom Google Search Button and pow, you’re sent to the site you want to search and the search results are displayed.

Take a look at the button I made for our Upgrade Computer Memory site.

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