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This[1].It was one of the best chrome store extensions which would directly take you to the relevant text while using Google Search.But it was shut down because of the drain in advertising revenue. Thank you Google!

[1]:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-scroll/gkcfk...

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This extension now makes no mention of the old functionality you're referring to. How did it work, in detail, for anybody who might want to reimplement the behavior?

I'm sorry,the nuances in the name seemed to have resulted in a wrong link.There you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-quick-scrol.... If you do reimplement the behaviour,i'd love to know how how!.

Oh, thanks!

What a fascinating concept.

Thankfully, the image carousel preserved enough info that I can understand exactly what this did. And because the image hosting framework the Chrome Web Store uses is exceptionally user-friendly, it was very easy to grab a full-res screenshot of the most important image: http://imgur.com/L7oWUXH

Thanks for mentioning that this once existed. I'm not sure if my tragic dev skills will be up to figuring out how to reimplement tit, but I'll certainly let you know if I make any progress!

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