   new function on search engines, possible?
  normally if you look something up on google it gives you the link and the "revelant text" on which it based it's search on. now i was wondering how hard it would be to have the browser highlight that text so you could scroll right to it.what would need to be involved/programmed to allow such thing?note: if this belongs in the Web Development forum, please move. thanks.   
  It's not hard. Some blog sites (and message boards) already do this by catching and parsing the referer string from Google.It does take a lot of CPU time though.. just use your browsers' find feature.   ;  It's possible and easy - google does it if you use the cached entry for example. The problem is that it takes a lot of resources to do, as Ravuya said.   ;  With Mozilla's find you can "Highlight" what you are trying to find as well, so you don't necessarily have to keep clicking Find Next. I'm sure someone could make an Extension to do this rather than wasting the server's CPU.   ;  The Google toolbar has a button that does this. If you type in a search into the box in the toolbar and then go to one of the result pages you can click on the little highlighter icon in the toolbar and it highlights all the search terms for you. There are also buttons for each term in the search that you can click on to jump to the next occurrence of the term on the page. Pretty handy.   ;  In a related story, my mom may have thought of another use for search engines, and it's not particularly ingenious.  After hearing a friend talk about viruses and spyware, she went home to scan our computer.  How did she do it?  Instead of using Spybot or McAfee or whatever else we have installed, she opened up Windows search and typed in "spyware."As funny as that is, I can honestly see that being integrated someday.   