Friday May 13, 2005

Search with boxesAmid all the commotion of the redesign last week, we also sneaked out a neat little search enhancement: term highlighting in the destination pages.

Though we've had term highlighting since around 1996 on docs.sun.com (Google since about 1998), this is the first time we've made it available across sites.

Just do a search on sun.com. Next to the result link listing of your choice, click the "new window" icon (the little double boxes -- see screenshot) for a new window complete with term highlighting.  There are little arrows on either side of the term to take you to the next, or previous instance (handy for long pages like technical documentation, etc).

More info on this useful  new feature can be found in the help section for search: http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/help.jsp

Page example with arrows

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