<div>Hi Anders,</div> <div> </div> <div>Anders wrote:</div> <div> </div> <div>"But so far nothing has beat the SGML browser I tried many years <BR>ago<BR>that added marks to the scroll bar for the hits: not only do they show<BR>where something is referenced, but also the distribution. I'd love to <BR>have<BR>that feature in my web browser".</div> <div> </div> <div>Yeah, that does sound pretty good. Someone should make a serious recommendation to Google along these lines; they have an interest in remaining the most user-friendly.</div> <div> </div> <div>Best Wishes,</div> <div> </div> <div>Jeffrey Herrlich<BR><BR><B><I></I></B></div> <div><B><I>Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>A B wrote:<BR>> With that said though, wouldn't it be<BR>> relatively easy for Google to standardize this feature such that
it<BR>> always highlights the keywords automatically, no matter what the source<BR>> of info (website, pdf, word document, etc)? This seems like an easy<BR>> thing to do, and it would still improve the speed and efficiency of<BR>> collecting info - especially for those like myself.<BR><BR>Yes, it could be done. But I think it would be a bad thing to have as<BR>default. In my life as an infovore there is one thing that annoys me more<BR>than anything, and that is (usually medical journal) websites that mark<BR>the search terms in the document as an unavoidable default. I search for a<BR>very general concept (e.g. "memory") to set a domain and disambiguate, and<BR>then a few particular words for the real aim of the search. But the result<BR>is a text totally littered with distracting highlighted words. It is<BR>especially annoying if I want to save the document for later.<BR><BR>Better search functions are great intelligence amplifiers. I like the<BR>Acrobat
search that shows you contexts and can search entire directory<BR>trees. But so far nothing has beat the SGML browser I tried many years ago<BR>that added marks to the scroll bar for the hits: not only do they show<BR>where something is referenced, but also the distribution. I'd love to have<BR>that feature in my web browser.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Anders Sandberg,<BR>Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics<BR>Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com