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In all honesty, I've hated this feature with a passion ever since it appeared. If it was simply a matter of being used in the way outlined in the article, when
by gertrunde 2y ago
In all honesty, I've hated this feature with a passion ever since it appeared.
If it was simply a matter of being used in the way outlined in the article, when someone creates a a link that references a particular piece of text, then fine, someone has deliberated intended the link to behave like that.
And then we have the lovely folk at Google search... who think it's fun to drag my attention off to a random part of a page that isn't where I want to be, forcing me to right-click, remove annotation and scroll back up to the top of the page.
That doesn't seem like a massive hardship, but it gets quite frustrating when multiplied over the many searches done in a day/week/month.
- KTibow 2y agoThat sounds annoying, even if the only work required was to press `Home`. Does this only happen with the featured snippets?
- coryfklein 2y agoSounds like your problem is with a Google product more so that the browser feature itself. I for one can't wait to start using these kinds of deep links. I love when websites have "copy link to header" buttons, but even when they do I often want to link to a particular sub-paragraph or sentence as a citation... and now I can!
- thebytefairy 2y agoIsn't the reason it highlights that from search because that was your search term? That's what I've seen, in which case I prefer that it does draw my attention to that string