Google Chrome now lets you link people to highlighted text on a website

Recently, Google Chrome unveiled some new features that can help boost your productivity — most notably including a way to link people to specific text from, say, an article or blog.

When you create one of these links, clicking it highlights the text you want to emphasize so it's obvious what you want the receiver to focus on, whether it's a statistic or an alluring quote from your favorite actor. All you have to do is highlight the text, right click, choose the option "Copy link to highlight," and send the link. 

It feels immediately like an extension of featured snippets, a type of Google Search result that works in basically the same way. When you search for something and get a featured snippet result, clicking that link (ostensibly) takes you directly to the text that applies, highlighting it in yellow. Read more...