BBC search buttons for the Google Toolbar

These search plugins are for the Google Toolbar, and will add a custom button to the toolbar in your browser. Additionally, some of the buttons add a drop-down menu which includes the latest headlines or articles from the relevant area of the BBC site when you are connected to the internet.

To add these search engines to your toolbar, simply click the link next to the search of your choice and follow the instructions.

If you do not have the Google Toolbar installed you will be prompted to install it.

These custom Google Toolbar buttons are provided as is, and are not endorsed by the BBC or Google. currybetdotnet is a personal website, and the views expressed are my own. They do not reflect the views of my current or former employers, or of the BBC or Google.

BBC Search

These four buttons give you access to the four tabs of results available from search on the BBC site - 'All of the BBC', 'BBC News and Sport', 'BBC Audio and Video' and 'The Web'

Additionally, the 'All of the BBC' and 'BBC News and Sport' buttons include the latest headlines from the UK edition of the BBC News site as a drop-down menu feature, and the 'BBC Audio and Video' button includes a drop-down menu of the latest news video clips available from the BBC. The headlines refresh every 5 minutes whilst you are connected to the internet.

  BBC - All of the BBC  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

  BBC News and Sport  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

  BBC Audio and Video  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

  BBC Web  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

BBC iPlayer

This plugin allows you to search the 7 days of catch-up TV available through the BBC's iPlayer service. The plugin works on all platforms that the Google Toolbar supports, but the iPlayer requires that you use Internet Explorer in order to use the download service itself

  BBC iPlayer  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

CBBC Search

This button gives you access to the BBC's special search service for children - CBBC Search. In addition, a drop-down menu displays the latest headlines from the CBBC Newsround site. The headlines refresh every 5 minutes whilst you are connected to the internet

  CBBC Search  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

BBC Weather

Enter a town, city, country name, or a UK postcode into the search box, then press this custom Google Toolbar button to get a 5 day weather forecast from the BBC.

  BBC Weather  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

BBC Recipe Finder

Enter up to three ingredients into the Google Toolbar, press this custom button, and get recipes back from BBC TV shows

  BBC Recipe Finder  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

DNA powered sites

Search for information on life, the universe and everything from h2g2, the online version of Douglas Adam's incomparable Hitchikers Guide To The Universe. In addition, this toolbar button includes a drop-down menu listing the latest entries to make it into the h2g2 Edited Guide.

  h2g2  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

Search the BBC's interactive culture magazine. In addition, this custom Google Toolbar button includes a drop-down menu listing the newest articles on the collective site, including member reviews and editorial content.

  BBC collective  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

Search an archive of World War Two memories, written by the public and collected by the BBC.

  BBC WW2 People's War  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

BBC pages on Google UK

Want a second opinion?

These buttons search Google UK, but restrict the results to content from the BBC site. The second plugin restrictes the results even further to those that have appeared on the news.bbc.co.uk area of the BBC's site.

In addition, these custom Google Toolbar buttons display as a drop-down menu the latest headlines from the UK edition of the BBC News site. The headlines refresh every 5 minutes whilst you are connected to the internet.

  Google BBC search  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

  Google BBC News and Sport  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

BBC blogs on Google UK

Google searches restricted to two of the BBC's most popular blogs - Nick Robinson's Newslog and The Editors Blog. These buttons also include a drop-down menu listing the most recent entries on the blog.

  Nick Robinson's Newslog on Google UK  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

  BBC Editors blog on Google UK  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

Doctor Whoogle

Doctor Whoogle uses Google to search the BBC's official Doctor Who site. Useful if you need to find out when Bok or WOTAN first appeared on the show in a rush. Or who The Master is. Additionally, the latest news headlines about the show from the BBC's Doctor Who site appear as items in a drop-down menu.

  Doctor Whoogle  [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]

Problem? Something missing? Hate the icons?

I tested these all on both the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 versions of the Google Toolbar when I first published them, and everything seemed to work, but if you experience a problem then please email me - martin.belam@currybet.net.

Or let me know if there is a BBC search box I've missed that you'd like to see a custom Google Toolbar button for, and I'll try and make it.

And please, feel free to send me better looking 16x16 pixel icons...

These buttons are also available as BBC related search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

You can also download a selection of custom Google Toolbar buttons and Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 search plugins for major British newspapers