> >I seem to be spending a lot of time pouring over online databases [of CD
> >recordings for example :>( ] and using the "Find in Page" facility in
> >Netscape but there must be a better way to do it.
There are two bookmarklets that may be of use to you. They can both be found at
the following page:
http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/navigation/index.phtml
One is "Find any in page". You can type a series of words and it will show you
the first of those words to appear. The only drawback is if you hit F3, to find
next, it will only find the same word it just found. However, it obviates one
frustration I've often had: That of having "search string not found" over and
over.
The other is "Show Occurrences of Word". This is like Ctrl+F except that
instead of needing to press F3 to see all the next occurrences, you just wait
and it shows them to you in slide show fashion.
Sorry, these are probably not the most wonderful tools in the world. However,
they do give you more flexibility. BTW, if you are using Netscape 4.7 you'll
need to read the following:
http://www.bookmarklets.com/NS47bug.html
(If you don't know what bookmarklets are, just visit
http://www.bookmarklets.com/)
Here are a couple more ideas. One, you can download all the pages to your hard
drive and use Agent Ransack to search. (http://www.agentransack.com/) It
provides a very readable display of all the occurences of the keywords in all
pages.
The last is a tool I'm developing right now. When I do finally complete it, it
will be perfect for the job you are dealing with. Sorry I can't be more
immediately helpful.
I hope some of these suggestions help.
Ed
