Adding Google as a search engine in Internet Explorer is quite complicated. Most browsers include Google in the list of search engines and Google is usually the default option, but IE ships with a single search engine: Bing. Adding Google involves visiting a Microsoft web page, finding Google and more clicks.
Google has a page that is supposed to make it easier to add Google as your search provider in IE. As Thomas P. noticed, it doesn't work. Google's XML file that includes the details about the search engine has the following address: http://67.223.228.48/google.xml and that IP has nothing to do with Google. For some reason, that file requests the browser to send search requests to https://dhpdse.googlegoro.com/search?q=. Googlegoro.com is owned by Google, but you won't get Google search results. Instead, you'll get a Google App Engine sign in form and then an error message.
The entire thing is weird. Why would Google host an important file on a domain it doesn't own?
{ Thanks, Thomas. }
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