8. A computer-implemented method comprising: rendering one or more pages; presenting a user interface for a search tool that enables a user to select to perform a syntactically similar search on the one or more rendered pages for a search term that the user enters, the user interface for the search tool having multiple selectable options to selectively designate performance of one or both of the synonym search or a syntactically similar search according to the search term; receiving, via the user interface, a search term entered by the user; exposing an option via the user interface to select one or more contextual choices associated with the search term entered by the user; ascertaining at least syntactically similar words relative to the search term entered by the user in accordance with a selection made via the multiple selectable options; conducting a local search by traversing the one or more rendered pages looking for exact matches for the search term and for syntactically similar words for the search term in accordance with one or more contextual choices made via the exposed option; and for words that constitute an exact match or a syntactically similar word, displaying said words for the user in context within the one or more rendered pages.
8. A computer-implemented method comprising: rendering one or more pages; presenting a user interface for a search tool that enables a user to select to perform a syntactically similar search on the one or more rendered pages for a search term that the user enters, the user interface for the search tool having multiple selectable options to selectively designate performance of one or both of the synonym search or a syntactically similar search according to the search term; receiving, via the user interface, a search term entered by the user; exposing an option via the user interface to select one or more contextual choices associated with the search term entered by the user; ascertaining at least syntactically similar words relative to the search term entered by the user in accordance with a selection made via the multiple selectable options; conducting a local search by traversing the one or more rendered pages looking for exact matches for the search term and for syntactically similar words for the search term in accordance with one or more contextual choices made via the exposed option; and for words that constitute an exact match or a syntactically similar word, displaying said words for the user in context within the one or more rendered pages. 10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the acts of rendering, presenting, receiving, ascertaining, traversing and displaying are performed by a web browser.