The Winners

The results are in...

Our search to find your favourite Internet Explorer 8 add-ons has come to an end - thanks for all your votes. So who won? Read on for the final results.

First up, your favourite Accelerator. Accelerators work to speed up simple tasks, enabling you to share information with other sites and services on the web and lessening the need to cut and paste - you can share links with Facebook or Windows Live Messenger, for example. According to our poll, your favourite Accelerator was Bing Maps, enabling you to access maps directly from search results. All you need to do is highlight a postcode, right-click the blue Accelerator icon that appears and hover over the Bing icon - you'll see a preview of the map appear. Click and the map will open in a new tab.

Web Slices are a way to get speedy access to regularly-updated information, such as bids on an eBay action. On sites with a Web Slice available, you'll see a green icon appear in the Internet Explorer 8 toolbar, enabling you to add the Web Slice to your Favorites Bar. The top Web Slice as voted for by you was Digg's Main Page Top Ten. Digg.com, is a site where you can vote up, or 'Digg', the news stories that most appeal to you. The Digg Web Slice can quickly show you the ten most popular stories on the site at the moment and you can check this out at any time.

Finally, as voted for by you, the top Visual Search add-on was from Wikipedia. You can select any search provider in Internet Explorer 8, and Visual Search brings extra features to this by giving you images within the search box preview. If you're searching for a generic term, it means that you'll always find exactly the result you need.

Together, Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search help you perform common browsing tasks more quickly and easily in Internet Explorer 8. You can find hundreds more add-ons for Internet Explorer 8 at ieaddons.com.