Advanced Google skills?

[shereads]

Let's say you're googling the name of a minor celebrity. Your google results include a fraction of a quote credited to this person, at what turns out to be someone's blog.

The blog in which the reference is buried is a single page of commentary, links and thumbnail photos that takes so long to scroll, you need a decompression stop when you come back up for your second tank. There are dozens of topic headers, none of which hints at a mention of the person you're reseraching.

Is there a way to pinpoint the location on the page of the reference you googled?

Edited to add: there's no Search option.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Let's say you're googling the name of a minor celebrity. Your google results include a fraction of a quote credited to this person, at what turns out to be someone's blog.

The blog in which the reference is buried is a single page of commentary, links and thumbnail photos that takes so long to scroll, you need a decompression stop when you come back up for your second tank. There are dozens of topic headers, none of which hints at a mention of the person you're reseraching.

Is there a way to pinpoint the location on the page of the reference you googled?

Edited to add: there's no Search option.

try going to that page then going to Edit and find in page and let the web browser find it for you.

 

[shereads]

try going to that page then going to Edit and find in page and let the web browser find it for you.

So that's why there's an Edit option on browsers.

<blushes furiously>

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Or if the option is available use the "as cached" link then the item you searched on would be highlighted.

 

[Pure]

yes, i've have some luck with "find", but on pages that scroll, i.e. are very long. (IOW there's no depth, just length)

i'm not sure how(if) it would work for pages embedded in other pages through a link.(I.e., there is a depth at which the thing is buried).

 

[tanyachrs]

Ctrl-F works if the text is on the page as text. Google's cache will have the phrase highlighted. If you have the Google toolbar, you can turn highlighting on and off on the page itself and jump straight to any search term. I don't understand how people live without the Google toolbar. It's like not having the internet at all.

You might also do a second search for the partial quote itself, surrounded by quotation marks. That should prompt Google to return the whole quote to you on the search results screen.

 

[Liar]

Edited to add: there's no Search option.

What weirdo web browser have you got that has no search function?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I've just had a glimpse of what it must be like to be shereads.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

How much experience Googling till you become an expert?

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/1002248/goog_lg.gif​

 

[shereads]

What weirdo web browser have you got that has no search function?

The blog has no search function. For searching the page. Now that I know Edit/Find exists, up there under the pull-down menu obscurely labeled "Edit" and then "Find," I feel like a new woman.

A little slow on the uptake, but new and a woman.

Thanks everyone.

 

[shereads]

I've just had a glimpse of what it must be like to be shereads.

Really? How do you like our breasts?

 

[arienette]

Cache button below the link is the best I've been able to come up with and it works pretty well.

 

[cantdog]

Really? How do you like our breasts?

Warm, soft... I approve.

 

[shereads]

Warm, soft... I approve.

Pervert.

 

[rgraham666]

Gah. Bad Freudian moment.

For a second I thought the thread title was 'Advanced Google kills'.

As to breasts, I share cant's opinion.

 

[shereads]

Gah. Bad Freudian moment.

For a second I thought the thread title was 'Advanced Google kills'.

As to breasts, I share cant's opinion.

A male friend used to say there should be a third breast, "on the back, for dancing."

 

[rgraham666]

A male friend used to say there should be a third breast, "on the back, for dancing."

I thought that was what a woman's ass was for.

Among other things.