Find on This Page
Search engines provide a list of websites that contain the words or
phrases for which you have searched. However, once you go to a
recommended website, it can be difficult to find your subject on the
page. This is
especially true on a long page. You may scroll and scroll, reading
through all the text looking for what you want.
Instead, try using the option called "Find on This Page" in
the Edit menu. Ctrl-F is the keyboard combination shortcut. Type in
the word you are looking for and the first instance of the word is
highlighted. Click Find Next to see the next and next.
This can quickly help you find information on the page.
There are times where the word you are looking for cannot be
found anywhere on the page. This usually happens because the page
has changed recently. The web is constantly changing and even the
best search engines can't keep up!
If you were to change your telephone number after the phone book
is published, it wouldn't be updated until the next phone book was
printed. The Internet is a little like that. If a page is changed,
it's not updated in the search engine until the next time the search
engine reviews the site. So sometimes, you look at old information
in the search results. (Fortunately, the search engines don't wait a
year to do an update. All search engines constantly scan through
pages on the Internet, updating their listings regularly.)
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