[extropy-chat] Yeah! Where the hell is Within-Text Highlighting?

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This is a question I've wondered about for a while, but I keep getting distracted, and forget to ask. Why is it that Google cannot provide a highlight of some kind for entered keywords (search words) *within* the text of a document itself? I mean, it can extract a single sentence which includes one or more entered keywords and then display in on the "roster" page (index page? - don't know the correct word for this). Why doesn't it provide something like a red box around the keywords as they appear in the text itself? It seems obvious that doing so could dramatically reduce the time required to assemble unfamiliar information. For example, If I were looking for some really obscure information, such as the mating habits of Australian termites, the process is usually unnecessarily tedious. First I would type in the keywords: "Australian termite mating habits", a list of fifty websites would come up, I'd open the first one, and spend 40 minutes skimming over the entire 60 page
 document, I'd finally find one sentence discussing what I'm searching for, while the rest of the document was summarizing the mating habits of all the other Australian insects, or it would be a well disguised advertisement for Viagra. What's up with this?
   
  I'm about as far as one can get from being a computer expert, but from my vantage point, this seems like an exceedingly easy and also worthwhile improvement for Google to make. Am I wrong about this?
   
  Best Wishes,
   
  Jeffrey Herrlich     


		
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