These search plugins are for the Google Toolbar, and will add a custom search button for the newspaper of your choice to the Google Toolbar in your browser. The majority of these buttons also add a drop-down menu which includes the latest headlines or articles from the newspaper in question.
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 Google or the newspapers listed below. 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 Google, or any of the newpaper publishers listed below.
Daily Express [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Daily Mail [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Daily Mirror [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Mirror Blogs [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
The Daily Star on Google UK No headline feed available [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Financial Times [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Guardian Unlimited [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Comment Is Free [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
The Independent [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
The Scotsman [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
The Sun [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Sunday Sport No headline feed available [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
The Telegraph on Google UK [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Telegraph Blogs [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
Times Online [Add this button to your Google Toolbar]
I tested these on both the Internet Explorer and Firefox versions of the Google Toolbar when I first published them in July 2007 and they seemed to work fine, but if you have a problem then please email me - martin.belam@currybet.net.
Or let me know if there is a British newspaper search box I've missed out 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...
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