28 June 2007
New Skweezer feature: Find In Page
Posted by Barnabas under: How To .
There’s a new feature in Skweezer 4.0, which was just released last week, that we call “find in page”, and if I recall correctly the specific behavior was the result of a Kevin Perkins brainwave. The idea is that Skweezer helps skip you right to the content you are looking for in search results. We are not the first to do this, but I think our approach is an improvement. Here’s how it works:
| Step 1: after performing a search on “breach” (a spy movie I just saw) I see that the first result I want is the fourth result. If this were on my phone, I could just hold down the “4″ key until my phone navigates to it. As it is, I’m using Firefox to take these screen shots, but with my user agent set to a phone so that the keys show up. |  |
| Step 2: unfortunately, boxofficemojo.com has a lot of navigation at the top of the page. However, the term I searched on is a link at the top of the first page after the search result, and I can click on it to skip to the first occurrence of the word “breach” in the page. If I searched on several words, each one would be a separate link. If I searched for “breach chris cooper” then each word would be linked separately. Chris Cooper is an awesome actor, by the way. |  |
| Step 3: after clicking the link for “breach”, the page reloads but skipped past all the navigation to main part of the page I wanted, specifically the first paragraph that contains the word “breach”. I have my answer in three clicks (not counting tapping out the word): Breach made $33 million domestic earlier this year. |  |
If I wanted to, I could keep clicking on the term at the top of the page and Skweezer would reload the page skipped to the next paragraph or heading with the word “breach”. This is the functionality that I think Skweezer does uniquely. It’s not as perfect as I’d like but we hope to improve it even further in the future, besides adding in “content folding” as other transcoders do, but without the confusing paging.