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Nowadays, every web browser integrates a search tool that allows users to scan pages and find specific words or phrases. You can also use Google's advanced search operators to locate words or phrases within the entire domain of a specific website. By combining these two tools, you'll be able to pinpoint the location of any word across the internet.
Steps
Searching on an open webpage
Press .Ctrl+F (on Windows) or ⌘ Command+F (on Mac). This action opens the 'Search' box in almost every browser. You can also find this command in the Edit menu of Internet Explorer or in the ☰ menu of Chrome and Firefox.
- If you're using a mobile browser, the search option is typically located in the browser's menu and labeled as 'Find in Page.'
- If you're on Safari for iOS, delete the URL in the address bar and type the word you want to search instead. Select 'On this page' from the search results that appear.
Enter the keyword you want to search for on the page. Your browser will look for matches with your keyword. Whether the letters are lowercase or uppercase doesn't matter when using the search tool.
Scroll through the results. Click the Next and Previous buttons in the search box to navigate through the search results. The page will jump to each result, and the word you're searching for will be highlighted.
Search for a webpage with Google
Go to Google on your browser. You can use Google to search across all pages of a specific domain. This is especially useful for finding matching words on large, complex websites.
Type .site:domainname.com before the word you want to search. This operator instructs Google to only search within pages of that domain.
Type the word or phrase you want to search after the website address. You can enter one word or multiple phrases at once. Put the search term in quotation marks if you want Google to look for the exact word or phrase.
- For example, to find pages containing the word 'banana' on Mytour, you would type site:Mytour.vn banana. To search for pages with the exact phrase 'eating bananas' on Mytour, you would type site:Mytour.vn "eating bananas".
Open a page from the search results and use the Search tool. Google will return all pages that match the search term, but it won't take you directly to the location of the matching text when you access the page. You'll need to use the Search tool to jump to the spot where the keyword appears on the page.
- Refer to the previous section for more details on how to use the Search tool.
