engine currently available. However, just as you can change your home page to whatever you'd like, you can also change the engine used by the Search Box. This is useful if you prefer another general-purpose engine, such as Yahoo!, or if you're looking for a specific type of information, such as a word definition, and want to switch to an engine better equipped to handle it, such as a dictionary. To change your Search Box engine, follow these steps: 1. Click the icon to the left in the Search Box (refer to Figure 4-2). The Firefox Search Box uses Google by default, so the icon you see is the Google icon. 2. Choose a new engine from the menu that appears (see Figure 4-3). Choose a new engine from the menu.   Figure 4-3: You can choose from a variety of search engines by clicking the icon. Firefox remembers which engine you select and defaults to it in all future windows. Tip To switch engines with the keyboard, press Ctrl+v within the Search Box. Firefox offers several high-quality engines in its Search Box, and I summarize them in Table 4-1. Table 4-1: Search Engines for the Search Box Engine Specialty Google General purpose Yahoo! General purpose Amazon Retail books, movies, computer software, and more Answers.com A variety of reference tools, including a dictionary, a thesaurus and an encyclopedia Creative Commons Photos, music, and text you can reuse without having to pay or ask the author's permission eBay Auctions selling any possible item imaginable Adding an engine to the Search Box You can add engines to the list you see in Figure 4-3 (shown earlier) so you can search with them from the Search Box. Here's how: 1. Click the icon to the left of the Search Box. 2. Choose Add Engines. This step loads the Firefox Central Web site. 3. Under the Add New Search Engines heading at the bottom of the page (see Figure 4-4), find the engine you want to add. Figure 4-4: Here's where you can select a different search engine for the Search Box. If you don't see the engine you want in the list, click the last link - Find Lots of Other Search Engines - to load a list of engines, all neatly organized into categories (such as Reference and Shopping). Hundreds of search engines are available to choose from. I outline some of my favorites in Table 4-2. 4. When you find the engine you want, simply click it and then click OK in the Firefox confirmation window. Your new search engine is immediately available from the Search Box. At the present time, you cannot remove a search engine from the Search Box list (shown earlier in Figure 4-3). Table 4-2: Additional Search Engines to Choose Engine Specialty Wikipedia Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with information on nearly every topic imaginable - and in dozens of languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese. As if that