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I used the Apture Service on my old Drupal 6 site with the Apture module, but since updating to Drupal 7, I found it was one of the modules that didn't have a Drupal 7 version.

I decided that I missed it enough, to rewrite it for Drupal 7. If you aren't familiar with the service or the module, here is what it can do for you:

One line of code can triple the time readers spend on your site. Interested?
Apture's Contextual Search keeps users engaged with your content by giving them the tools to search and share without even leaving your page. Give your readers the power to search the web for rich content from Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Flickr, YouTube and others all through your site.

The module gets a little bit of Javascript from Apture, and then overlays a nicely branded search bar at the top of your site when your visitor scrolls down.

Also, if a visitor highlights text snippets on your site, a window appears showing them the search terms, along with video, and images relating to the term.

It is available from drupal.org/project/apture

I have to mention and thank @ultimike from DrupalEasy for his assistance with this as well.