Google Search Engine: Are You Using The Magic
Yellow Button?
Jason Lewis
Are you using Google's 'magic yellow button', to help transform how you
search for information online? If you're not, you are missing out on
something special, that can not only save you time, but also prevent you
from pulling your hair out, during those frustrating search engine moments.
I'm sure this will sound familiar, but try to imagine this scenario for a
moment…
You're at the Google home page, because you are looking for information
about something specific. Right, so you type in your search, and Google
spits back a load of search results, and you see a link to a web page, which
looks like it has exactly the information you want.
So, you click on the link and wait patiently as the page loads.
...Then you start to scan up and down, to find what Google just told you was
definitely on that page!
...You scan again, up and down, but you can't for the life of you, find the
bit of text that means everything to you. There's so much text on the page
it could be anywhere. It's driving you nuts trying to find it!
Will someone please help?
...Enter Google's 'Magic Yellow Button'
What if...instead of staring at a huge fuzzy page of text all blending
together, you click a magic button in your browser window 'once'.
...Then the exact piece of information you want is instantly highlighted
with, well, a highlighter pen! No kidding honest, you can actually do this,
even if you are a computer dunce.
It gets better. Now that you've found the information on the page, you
might find all the highlighting a bit off-putting, because you'd prefer to
read the information without it.
No problem. Just click the magic yellow button again, and all the
highlighting disappears before your eyes. You can turn it on and off with
one click of your mouse.
Think how much time this is going to save you. Next time you use Google to
look for information, you'll be able to find what you're looking for so much
faster. No more giving up on a page full of text, because you don't have
the time to read the whole page to find what you want to know.
Here's How To Install Google's Magic Yellow Button…
1. First, you need to install Google's free toolbar, which automatically
displays every time you open your Internet browser. Don't worry, it tucks
in neatly at the top of your browser window, you will hardly notice after a
little while. You can download the free toolbar from this page on Google:
http://toolbar.google.com/
2. Once you have installed the toolbar, open up your Internet browser and
you will see it displayed near the top of the page. Click on the link or
icon that says 'Options'.
3. A pop up window will open. Click on the tab at the top, which says
'More'.
4. Under the sub headline 'Find On Page'; you will see the option titled:
'Highlight', with an image of a highlighter pen next to it. Click on the box
to the left of it, until the green tick is displayed.
5. Click 'OK' to finish, and you're done.
Now, open up your Internet browser again, and go and do a test search at
www.Google.com. Search for anything you like, just type in the first few
words that come into your head.
Click on 'any' of the search results and check out their web page. Before
you start scanning the page, look up to the Google toolbar you've just
installed, and click on the 'highlight' icon once.
Has the page lit up for you?
Scroll down the page faster than you could possibly read.
Isn't that the easiest way to find a few words hidden somewhere on a page
full of text? Amazing tool isn't it?
Just remember, you can turn the highlighting on and off instantly, just by
clicking on the highlight button with your mouse.
I hope you found this useful. Happing searching! :-)
Jason Lewis is creator of the 'Find Stuff Quickly' video series, a
comprehensive step-by-step guide, showing you how to find information faster
and more accurately using Google. To improve your research skills, visit:
http://www.findstuffquickly.com
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