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Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points
Posted by Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

How to make a search engine, that does exactly like Control + F, (or Command +F on mac)?

I would like to add a search engine, that dose use the exact thing as Control +F, but to be on my website, so my user dose not have to manually do it.

1 Answer

Anthony Mejia
Anthony Mejia
8,840 Points

Hey Farouk,

I believe your website would be perfect without one and here's why.

  1. The majority of web users are already accustomed with using Cntrl + F to search their current webpage.

  2. Pretty much every modern browser has this find feature. Google Chrome, for instance, has a beautiful find feature that searches pages and highlights matching text. Their users are already used to how Google highlights their matching text.

  3. If you want to implement a search engine, make it across your entire website. That will allow your users to search your awesome site with ease, regardless of what page they're on.

Instead of taking time to create this search engine, I suggest using that time to add more content to your website, replace any colors you don't like, fix the layout, etc.. Let the nerds in Stanford sweat over making this feature!

Best of luck!