# An application to search for specific words on a Web page? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 2, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164 "2004-02-02T07:48:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/1 "2004-02-02T07:48:07Z")
Does anyone know of a program that would let me search for a word or phrase on a Web page? Because sometimes I will Google a topic, and the search engine will return a page, but the page is so incredibly long that it becomes very difficult to locate the particular text that I want. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/2 "2004-02-02T07:50:46Z")
Yes, it’s called a “web browser.” Try looking for something in the menus labeled “Find.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/3 "2004-02-02T07:53:06Z")
Try Control+F. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/4 "2004-02-02T07:54:44Z")
Ah. Right in front of my face, it was. I feel brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/5 "2004-02-02T11:29:02Z")
The Google toolbar has a highlighter feature, where you can highlight words on a page in different colours, as well as a search-page feature. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/6 "2004-02-02T17:07:52Z")
Even easier, if you look at Google’s cached copy, rather than the original page (Click “Cached” next to the URL on the results page) then Google highlights the words you have searched for. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/7 "2004-02-02T21:00:23Z")
> [@r\_k](#): > > Even easier, if you look at Google’s cached copy, rather than the original page (Click “Cached” next to the URL on the results page) then Google highlights the words you have searched for. Wicked. I never knew that. Works great. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-application-to-search-for-specific-words-on-a-web-page/227164/8 "2004-02-02T22:46:12Z")
If you use Mozilla (d/l it from [www.mozilla.org](http://www.mozilla.org) ), you can search for any word on any page, simply by starting typing.