Search your Internet Explorer History/Cache via Windows Desktop Search

Microsoft Support  - Availability and functionality of the Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Internet Explorer History

"The Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Internet Explorer History add-in indexes the history of the Web pages that you visit in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, this add-in creates, maintains, and indexes cached pages that correspond to the Web pages that you visit. This functionality lets you search the contents of these Web pages.
Additionally, if you visit the same Web page on two different dates, two versions of this page will appear in the cache and in the index. Therefore, you can search the contents of this Web page as it existed on the two different dates.

Prerequisites

To install the Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Internet Explorer History, the computer must have one of the following installations:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or a later version

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4)

• Windows Vista

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Microsoft Downloads - Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Internet Explorer History

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 This Add-in indexes the history of the web pages you have browsed using Internet Explorer.
By downloading this Add-in, your Internet Explorer History will be indexed by Windows Desktop Search when your PC is idle or when you select ‘Index Now’. Once the index is updated you can immediately search your Internet Explorer History.

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I missed this when it came out last December (December 2006).

One tip, if you want to limit your search to just your IE history/cache, use the "iehistory" qualifier in your search. So lets say you installed this, and then visited my blog, and now wanted to search JUST your IE History for those visits, "iehistory coolthing" would do it for you...

(via Technical Weblog of Eric Charran -  Searching IE History with Windows Desktop Search)

 

Update #1 8/4/2007 @ 5:34PM PDT:

You can also use "store:iehistory" to limit the searching to just the IE History/cache...
(for example, "store:iehistory coolthing")

For additional advanced Windows Desktop Search information, check out this page, Windows Desktop Search: Advanced Query Reference for 3.x