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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer Web Browsers
I liked the "nice UI touch" described in this hint: In Safari, after using Google Search box, you can use Find on page (⌘-F), and the search terms are filled in automatically.

However, dzurn was right:
I saw this before also, and I consider it a PITA instead of a nice UI touch. I usually Google for multiple single words for a hit, not search for entire phrases that I expect to actually see on the page.
Happily, this behavior seemingly changed with some recent update (10.4.2, perhaps?):
  • Enter one two three in the Google search box, and ⌘-F defaults to one.
  • Enter "one two three" in the Google search, and ⌘-F defaults to one two three.
I think they got it right this time!
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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: adrianm on Oct 17, '05 08:39:03AM

However, imagine your spouse's surprise when s/he does a cmd+F in textpad only to find "donkey pr0n" in the search field :-)



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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: machard on Oct 17, '05 10:07:18AM
The other thing is that searches one two three and "one two three" are two completely different searches, returning completely different results.

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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: zpjet on Oct 17, '05 11:38:43AM
yes exactly, and even then apple developers got it right. when searching for stuffit expander 9 poiwerpc (coz bloody ten doesn't work), i don't want to later look for exact phrase; more likely, i want to find only stuffit on resulted pages, or whatever i write first. but if i look for "We've done it, Trinity", command F will give me the exact phrase - without quotes, of course. i think it's great!

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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: perihelion on Oct 17, '05 10:39:06AM

It would seem to me that what is done is that the google search replaces what is currently in the command+E "clipboard". This is the "find clipboard", and if you command+E something, just like copy, and then enter a find dialog, that thing should be the thing you find in the find dialog.
God that is a clumpsy explanation, but just test it out and you'll see :)

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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: zo219 on Oct 17, '05 12:51:52PM

I would like to know how, in more than ten years on the Mac, I missed the existence of Command-E. . . . Just plain stupid? Wait--it's RTFRM. I never read them. . . .I bet there's some connection.



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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 17, '05 02:20:31PM

I never noticed Apple-e, so I'm glad you folks mentioned it. Sure enough, it's in Safari's Edit|Find menu. Nice! Now that I know it's there, I will probably use it.

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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: zpjet on Oct 18, '05 05:09:33AM

no, it is actually systemwide.



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Improved 'Google search to Find box' transfer
Authored by: displaced on Oct 18, '05 04:38:12PM

So it is....


5 years on a Mac and never knew about Cmd+E either! *bangs head on desk*... and it's incredibly useful too.

Wow.

Thanks!!



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Command-E
Authored by: sjk on Oct 18, '05 11:07:36PM
Ahh, so that's what Use Selection for Find (Command-E) does. Thanks!

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