BBC search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

These search plugins are in the OpenSearch format. This means that you can add them to the search bar in both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 and above.

To add these search engines directly to the search box in your browser, simply click the link next to search of your choice. Your browser should then prompt you to add the engine.

These search plugins are provided as is, and are not endorsed by the BBC, Microsoft, Google or Mozilla. 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, Microsoft, Google or Mozilla.

BBC Search

These four plugins 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'

  BBC - All of the BBC  [Add this search to your browser]

  BBC News and Sport  [Add this search to your browser]

  BBC Audio and Video  [Add this search to your browser]

  BBC Web  [Add this search to your browser]

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 Firefox and Internet Explorer, but the iPlayer requires that you use Internet Explorer in order to use the download service itself

  BBC iPlayer  [Add this search to your browser]

CBBC Search

This plugin gives you access to the BBC's special search service for children - CBBC Search

  CBBC Search  [Add this search to your browser]

BBC Weather

Enter a town, city, country name, or a UK postcode to get a 5 day weather forecast from the BBC.

  BBC Weather  [Add this search to your browser]

BBC Recipe Finder

Enter up to three ingredients and get recipes back from BBC TV shows

  BBC Recipe Finder  [Add this search to your browser]

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.

  h2g2  [Add this search to your browser]

Search the BBC's interactive culture magazine

  BBC collective  [Add this search to your browser]

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

  BBC WW2 People's War  [Add this search to your browser]

BBC pages on Google UK

Want a second opinion?

These plugins 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 part of the BBC's site.

  Google BBC search  [Add this search to your browser]

  Google BBC News and Sport  [Add this search to your browser]

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

  Nick Robinson's Newslog on Google UK  [Add this search to your browser]

  BBC The Editors blog on Google UK  [Add this search to your browser]

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.

  Doctor Whoogle  [Add this search to your browser]

Problem? Something missing? Hate the icons?

I tested these all on both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 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 plugin for, and I'll try and make it.

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

These plugins are also available as BBC custom buttons for the Google Toolbar.

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