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My biggest complaint with current search in all the browsers is that if you don't find what you're looking for, it takes a while to realize what has happened since there is no obvious feedback (though FF is pretty good). Also, it isn't obvious if you have wrapped around or it is hard to find the text if the font is small.

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If I were you, and I knew C well enough, I'd actually fix the search in Firefox or Chrome to implement these features, then use that to demonstrate my skill to clients, employers or fellow geeks.

Safari does this better, darkening the whole page except for the matches. (I'm looking at Safari 4 in Windows.)

That makes the matches about as prominent as your colorful pop-up bubble display.

I agree that's really nice... but what happens when the text isn't found? The feedback is that the page brightens. Even if I know to shift my eyes to the entry field, it feels odd to me that the feedback for something going wrong is that the page lightens up.

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