Mac Tip: Adobe PDF plugin and Google

Google now adds a fragment to URLs to PDFs it finds:
#search=%22 search-terms-seperated-by-spaces %22

For example:

http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/~schwede/Teaching/BixII-SS05/Semantic_Networks.pdf#search=%22Rappaport%20sneps%22

The Adobe PDF plugin seems to use this fragment to find every occurrence of any of the search terms. I hadn’t seen that before.
Because the PDF plugin only works in Safari, this is currently only supported in Safari.

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