{"id":47432,"date":"2024-06-24T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47432"},"modified":"2024-06-24T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:29:45","slug":"computer-skills-why-a-search-might-return-a-page-that-doesnt-seem-to-have-the-search-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-skills-why-a-search-might-return-a-page-that-doesnt-seem-to-have-the-search-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer skills: why a search might return a page that doesn&#8217;t seem to have the search term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about everyday computer situations: the tutor mentions one that can be tiring.<\/h2>\n<p>\nOccasionally, one might want to know if a term exists within a web site. Using a search bar, one might check for said term. A page might be returned that doesn&#8217;t seem to have the term requested. How can such happen?<\/p>\n<p>\nOne interesting possibility is that the underlying html document may contain the term. The html code itself, called &#8220;markup,&#8221; wraps the content in tags that prescribe how it&#8217;s displayed (font color, heading size, spacing, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>An example might be as follows: In a search box, one types the word &#8220;maroon&#8221; (which happens to be a standard colour name in html). A page on the site has, in its underlying markup, an instruction to display some content in maroon (a reddish-brown). As such, &#8220;maroon&#8221; is not part of the content. Yet, that page may be given back in the search response. The user may then search that specific page, possibly with Ctrl+F, but not find &#8220;maroon,&#8221; because the user only sees the content, not the markup. They might notice something on the page is maroon-coloured, but understandably not make the connection &#8211; at least, at first.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, right-clicking, then View Page Source, then Ctrl+F, may well reveal why that page was returned from a search for &#8220;maroon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baskent.edu.tr\/~tkaracay\/etudio\/agora\/nnn\/html_colors.htm#:~:text=The%20World%20Wide%20Web%20Consortium,teal%2C%20white%2C%20and%20yellow.\">baskent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about everyday computer situations: the tutor mentions one that can be tiring. Occasionally, one might want to know if a term exists within a web site. Using a search bar, one might check for said term. A page might &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-skills-why-a-search-might-return-a-page-that-doesnt-seem-to-have-the-search-term\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer skills: why a search might return a page that doesn&#8217;t seem to have the search term<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073],"tags":[3203,3205,3204],"class_list":["post-47432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-skills","tag-ctrlf","tag-html-standard-colours","tag-view-page-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47438,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions\/47438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}