I find that when I'm writing a blog entry I'm often tabbing backwards and forwards and opening up other windows just to search for URL's (e.g. I can never remember URL's to other people's home pages and so on).

So, I wrote a little Live Writer Plug-In to help with searching. There might be others out there already, didn't check :-)

The download is here. If you take the 2 files in the zip file and drop them into your equivalent of;

C:\Program Files\Windows Live Writer\PlugIns

then the next time that you run Live Writer you should see a new option to Insert Live Search Result...

When you click on that option, you'll get a dialog that looks like this;

and when you enter a search term and click Search you'll get (hopefully) up to 10 results back (I figured that you don't want to be overwhelmed here with lots of extra search results);

and then you just double-click a result to insert it into your document or click Cancel to not do that.

The search is provided by  Windows Live Search via its SOAP API in order to do the searching for you.

Let me know if you think it's useful and I might try and find a way of doing an image search from it as well. If Mike Ormond's listening then, yes, I did read the EULA on this one :-)

Updates

1. Updated the binaries in the zip file following some nice suggestions from Craig around doing sensible things with the tab order and AcceptButton and so on. Also added a tiny bit of my own to let you edit the Title name before doing the insert.