Making Google an Icon

[caveman]

I use Ixquick as my default search engine, in fact it's my home page. But obviously there are time when I use google. Can I create an icon on the IE taskbar for easy access.

easier to install the google toolbar, imo

http://toolbar.google.com/

[caveman]

Great idea, but losing more screen space does not appeal. Does that toolbar have a reduce to an icon option?

Originally Posted by caveman

I use Ixquick as my default search engine, in fact it's my home page. But obviously there are time when I use google. Can I create an icon on the IE taskbar for easy access.

You could try dragging the google address to the links bar just to the right of where it says Go.

Originally Posted by caveman

Great idea, but losing more screen space does not appeal. Does that toolbar have a reduce to an icon option?

had a look but that option doesn't seem to be available - yesman's idea would work, or you could just stick a link to google in your 'favourites'?

[skyblueheroes]

If you go to Google Labs, they have a Beta Google deskbar too. It sits in your existing deskbar and you can search from that.

[andygrif]

Easiest way I found to do this was to take the google logo, put it in an image editor to crop so only leaving the 'G' and then covert to an ICO file, which I then dumped in the Windows directory.

The best program for this is the freeware Irfanview, which handles basic cropping and sizing and can save to ICO files.

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by yesman

You could try dragging the google address to the links bar just to the right of where it says Go.

As for creating an icon, you can use the links bar to do this. Just place a shortcut to the site you want in X:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Favorites\Links (where X is the drive letter) and moving the links bar from next to the go button to near to help.

[Chris W]

you could consider using firefox instead of IE, this has a small box to the right of the address bar to do a google search with. You can also add other search engines to the list, and then chose which one you want to search with.

[andygrif]

Just thought....you can have mine that's on IE's links bar that I made in Irfan View...happy searching!!

[caveman]

Many thanks for the responses and the icon from you andygrif.

[Shaun]

I'm not sating anyone has asked a dumb question in this thread, but I came across this while googleing (sp??) after reading this thread and it made me smile.

I really love google!