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+5  Q: 

How can I highlight words on my page for which the user has googled?

I noticed that certain web pages do highlight the words I googled for.

Example: Try searching for "virtualbox" and go to the VirtualBox page. Now "virtualbox" is highlighted on that page.

I want to do the same on my page. How can I know the words the user was searching for?

+8  A: 

You check referrer and parse out the words. Most likely there will even be javascript functions for doing that.

Rashack  2009-08-14 11:44:08
Here's couple of those javascript functions Rashack mentioned http://eriwen.com/javascript/highlight-search-results-with-js/ and http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/searchhi/
Glen  2009-08-14 11:52:04

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