How to: Use the Google Toolbar to search a web page

I’m a huge advocate of Google products, and there are none that I use more than the Google Toolbar. This handy toolbar is a must for anyone who uses IE or Firefox to browse the net, as it makes web searching and using any online Google tools a breeze.

One thing I love about the toolbar is that every search term immediately appears as a button on the right hand side of the toolbar as soon as you type it. When reading any of the pages that Google has returned in your search, you can click the button to automatically jump to each occurance of that term on the page. This feature is a huge time saver and one I use constantly.

What I’ve discovered is that this feature can be used as a replacement for the standard browser ‘Find’ function (found by hitting ctrl-s in your browser). Whilst the find feature in Firefox is great, I hate the ‘Find’ box that pops up in IE. It’s ugly and untidy; I can’t believe they left it in for v7. So I bypass its use completely.

If I need to find a word on any page I’m browsing, I simply type it into the Google Toolbar search field. No need to hit ‘Go’…..just click on the button that appears on the right, and the browser will jump to that term if it appears anywhere in the current page.

Neat, fast and easy. Just the way I like it!

Thanks for reading!
-Howo