Another Google Patent Applicatoin

• Posted by Badi Jones on July 7th, 2005 - Comment on this Post »

Systems and methods for direct navigation to and/or highlighting a specific portion of a target document such as query-relevant portion of the document are disclosed. The method may include generating a search result link to a search result document and generating an instruction to a client document browser to navigate directly to an intra-document portion related to the query within the search result document. The search result may include a snippet extracted from the search result document such that the instruction causes navigation directly to at least a portion of the snippet. The instruction may be an artificial anchor undefined in the search result document, e.g., designated by a preassigned artificial anchor designator. The client browser may have an artificial anchor module installed to execute the instruction to navigate directly to and optionally highlight the intra-document portion within the target document in response to the document link being selected.

Above is the begining part of the latest Google Patent application. Im sure its no more than an idea right now, but it does look pretty interesting. Seems that they want to be able to point people to a specific spot in a document when they search. If you want to read more, here is a link to the complete patent application.

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