Default Settings

We cannot automatically set your home page or default search engine due to your current browser setting. Please follow the instructions below to manually set Search and Give as your Home Page and to manually set Search And Give as your default Search engine.

Set Search and Give as Your Home Page

Set Search And Give as Your Default Search Engine

Set Search and Give as Your Default Home Page

Here's how:

Netscape 4.0-6.0

  1. Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
  2. Click on "Navigator."
  3. In the "Navigator Starts with" section, select "Home page."
  4. In the "Home page" section, type "http://www.searchandgive.com" in the text box.
  5. Click "OK."

Internet Explorer

  1. Select "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu.
  2. Click on the "General" tab.
  3. In the "Home page" section, type "http://www.searchandgive.com" in the text box.
  4. Click "OK."

America Online

  1. Make sure you are on our front page, http://www.searchandgive.com.

  2. Click the link below with your right mouse button and select "Copy URL to Clipboard."

    http://www.searchandgive.com

    * If the "copy" option didn't appear, highlight the following address: http://www.searchandgive.com. Go to the "Members" drop down menu and select "Preferences".

  3. Click on the "WWW" icon.
  4. Click on the "Home Page" box at the bottom of the pop-up window and then depress your "Control" and "V" keys (at the same time) and paste in the address. If the address does not appear in the box, simply type in what you tried to paste from above.
  5. Click the "OK" button.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Select "Options" from the "Tools" menu.
  2. Click on the “Main” icon
  3. Type "http://www.searchandgive.com" in the “Home Page” text box.
  4. Click the “OK” button.

Set Search And Give as Your Default Search Engine

Here's how:

Internet Explorer 7

  1. Click here and follow the prompts to set Search And Give as your default search engine for Internet Explorer 7.

Internet Explorer 6

  1. If you have other Internet Explorer windows open, close them now.

  2. Download this file to make Search And Give the default search engine for Internet Explorer 6. (Note: you will need Administrator privileges on your computer in order to install this file.)

    When you click on the above link, Internet Explorer will ask you whether to open or save the file. Select "Open" to immediately make the change (i.e. to make Search And Give your default search engine for the actions described above). If you'd rather examine the file prior to making the change, select "Save," and then use Notepad to view the file.

  3. Restart Internet Explorer.

Please note, you may need to reboot your system in order for the change to go into effect.

If you change your mind, you can set the search engine back to the original Internet Explorer default by following the instructions below:

  1. If you have other Internet Explorer windows open, close them now.
  2. Download this file and run it.
  3. Restart Internet Explorer.

Firefox 2.0

  1. Click here and follow the prompts to set Search And Give as your default search engine for Firefox 2.0.

Netscape Communicator

For Netscape 4.0 - 4.7, it is possible to search by entering "? <search terms>" in the URL box instead of a URL. However, you can set your default search provider by directly editing the prefs file. This can be dangerous - see the Unofficial Netscape FAQ for more details.

  1. If Netscape is running, close all instances.

  2. For Windows: To edit the prefs file, use Notepad to load ...\Netscape\Users\{username}\prefs.js. ("..." is probably the "Programs" folder.)

    For Macintosh: To edit the prefs file, use SimpleText or equivalent to load ...:preferences:netscape f:netscape preferences. ("..." is your system folder.)

    For UNIX: Edit the file .netscape/preferences.js in your home directory.

  3. Once you've loaded the preferences file, add the following line to the end of the file:

    user_pref("network.search.url", "http://www.searchandgive.com/searchresults.aspx?q=");

    Don't forget to hit <enter> at the end of the line!