Google Search Word Highlighting – Looks Awful
I just did a search on Google and on the results pages the search words were highlighted in yellow. This is slightly annoying, but it can help to pick out the words in the results. However, when navigating to a page, the results are still all highlighted. This is the same as when you viewed a cached page on Google. With the live pages, it looks really awful. Keywords being printed in bold by the publisher is often bad enough, but having a search engine interfer with the way a page looks is just no on at all. And there is no obvious way to switch the “service” off either.
And there’s more. Even on other pages that you view, even of not searching for those keywords, they appear highlighted. Maybe thios is just a Sunday glitch in the sysem. Maybe the Google work experience boy was left to play with the code, and thought that he was in the test environment. Hopefully this is the case, and it will change back shortly. Please let this be the case!
Example of Google Search Results Coloured In
Google colors in search term keywords on another page
Example of Google coloring in keywords on a page (different page to search results)
Google search results are colored in
I HATE THAT LOOK – Do you or anyone reading know how to turn this off.
No idea. Strangely, I only saw it once, and blogged it, but never saw it again. I guess the wrong switch at Google was flicked by accident.
Same happened to my system but I rectify the error.
This happen simply because your mistakely click on the Toggle highlighting button on the google toolbar.
To rectify the error, On your Google toolbar, you will see a yellow toggle highlighting button that looks like a brush tool (after autofill button) just click on it and the highlighting will go.
Desamoye, thanks for explaining that. I thought it was something amiss with Google.
How do I turn the Highlighting feature ON ???
Dunno, mine came on by accident, then went off again. Must be a switch somewhere, no idea where. Will take a look later and see if I can find it.
thanks a lot , spent over 2 hrs trying to figure out what went wrong with my system, cos the highlighting was so annoying, especially since it appeared on other pages too. i’ve solved the problem….now i can continue my work!
Yep, Google toolbar. Two years though! That is a long time to suffer! I am surprised you didn’t try a different search engine.