Internet Search HALP

ivona nyzio · July 2008

Ugh...so, I am Googling something that has a lot of hits, and am hoping for a way (if not thru Google, through Yahoo or other search engine) where the key word(s) you are looking for are highlighted within the results.

E.g., if I am searching for "Peter Smith" and I get a 5 page article that somewhere mentioned Peter Smith buried way deep, will any of the search engines highlight "Peter Smith" so I don't have to read all 5 pages?

Or do you have to cut and paste and do some sort of find/replace search or something wacky to get this done?

jeffrey · July 2008

Hit the cached version.

All instances of search string are highlighted in yellow.

carnivore · July 2008

If you use Firefox as your browser, that's built-in. You can start typing on any page and it will automatically highlight the phrase you typed.

millie · July 2008

eh, am using firefox 3 and see the highlights (or rather BOLD) on the search results thru Google, but once you open the link it's not highlighted within the document.

how do i hit the cached version?

jeffrey · July 2008

Yes, Firefox 5 should definitely have this.

In terms of hitting the cached version, look at the google results...it's the link at the end of each result.

kbobelly · July 2008

eh, am using firefox 3 and see the highlights (or rather BOLD) on the search results thru Google, but once you open the link it's not highlighted within the document.

how do i hit the cached version?

jeffrey · July 2008

^^

Well, *second* to last anyway, just before "Similar pages" at the end of each search result item.

alafairnadia · July 2008

or ... just start typing. it'll pick up what you're looking for.

jessica senat · July 2008

ehn! not working!

ok, try this. google "Bill Gates". Now open an article where he is refrenced and show me exactly where in the aritcle he appears (w/o having to read the whole thing)

alafairnadia · July 2008

ctrl or open-apple F.

futurebrooklynian · July 2008

ah, that works. thanks!

alafairnadia · July 2008

yay!

whyfi · July 2008

For future reference, if you have the google toolbar, there's an icon/button that resembles the tip of a fluorescent yellow highlighter - hit the button and it'll highlight all of the words in your toolbar search field, different colors for each word, too, which is nice.

bklyngrl · July 2008

Oh, WhyFi, I don't know why I never noticed this. I could keeees you

xoxo

opossumqueen · July 2008

alafairnadia wrote: ctrl or open-apple F.

yes! And this works in other apps like Word, Excel, etc. I use it so much in fact, that I find myself missing it while reading hardcopy.

While temping, I had a couple high-paying gigs that pretty much hired me because folks didn't know this feature and they thought they had tons of work

The only problem was pretending to stay busy after I finished my searches so quickly--they thought I was going to have to read tons of documents looking for one word (luckily not a common word).

tonyb930u · July 2008

I swear you'd never know I've worked in technology for 15 years :-)

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