British newspaper 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 the 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 newspapers, 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 Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, or any of the newspapers listed on this page.

Daily Express

The Daily Express offers three search options, searching the newspaper, searching the web, and searching the Thomson Local directory.

  Daily Express  [Add this search to your browser]

  Daily Express Websearch  [Add this search to your browser]

  Daily Express Thomson Local  [Add this search to your browser]

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail offers a couple of specialist searches as well as a search of the newspaper, including TravelMail and a search of the Daily Mail messageboards. The paper also claims to offer websearch from the advanced search page, but when I tested this in June 2007 it just generated an error message when selected.

  Daily Mail  [Add this search to your browser]

  TravelMail  [Add this search to your browser]

  Daily Mail Messageboards  [Add this search to your browser]

Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror offers a search of the newspaper, the Mirror's blogs, and a websearch facility.

  Daily Mirror  [Add this search to your browser]

  Daily Mirror Websearch  [Add this search to your browser]

  Mirror Blogs  [Add this search to your browser]

Daily Star

The Daily Star does not offer a site search, so I have not included it.

Financial Times

The Financial Times offers an article search and a stock quotes search.

  Financial Times  [Add this search to your browser]

  Financial Times Quotes  [Add this search to your browser]

The Guardian

The Guardian offers a search of the newspaper, their job site, their blogs and the 'Comment Is Free' site. They also offer a websearch from their homepage. However, the websearch simply links through to Yahoo!, so I have not included a plugin for it here.

  Guardian Unlimited  [Add this search to your browser]

  Guardian Jobs  [Add this search to your browser]

  Comment Is Free  [Add this search to your browser]

  Guardian Unlimited Blogs  [Add this search to your browser]

The Independent

The Independent offers site search and an Independent branded Yahoo! powered websearch

  The Independent  [Add this search to your browser]

  The Independent Websearch  [Add this search to your browser]

The Scotsman

Although it is not a British-wide national paper, I have included The Scotsman since they offer not only a search over the current , but also a search across the amazing digital archive they offer of scanned copies of the newspaper from 1817 to 1950.

  The Scotsman  [Add this search to your browser]

  The Scotsman Archive 1817 - 1950  [Add this search to your browser]

The Sun

The Sun offers a site search and a websearch, as well as specialist searches over their discussions board and blogs.

  The Sun  [Add this search to your browser]

  The Sun Discussions  [Add this search to your browser]

  The Sun Blogs  [Add this search to your browser]

  The Sun Websearch  [Add this search to your browser]

Sunday Sport

I've included this to be a completetist rather than because it is of any great value - my test search for 'donkey' pulled up a story about Spanish bullfighters battling giant turtles. Ho hum.

  Sunday Sport  [Add this search to your browser]

The Telegraph

The Telegraph offers site search, blog search, and a search of their user generated My Telegraph site. However, the URL for their site search is obfuscated, and I have not been able to extract a working version. Instead the plugin here searches Google for pages from telegraph.co.uk

  The Telegraph on Google UK  [Add this search to your browser]

  Telegraph Blogs  [Add this search to your browser]

  My Telegraph  [Add this search to your browser]

  Telegraph Jobs  [Add this search to your browser]

The Times

The Times does not seem to offer any specialist search beyond a search of the online newspaper content.

  Times Online  [Add this search to your browser]

Problem? Something missing? Hate the icons?

I tested these on both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 when I first published them in July 2007, 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...

On the currybetdotnet site you can download a selection of BBC related search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. These plugins are also available as BBC custom buttons for the Google Toolbar.

You can also download a selection of custom Google Toolbar buttons for major British newspapers