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?):
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051013015533323