The Scroll-to-Text Feature
Google Chrome includes a feature called “Scroll to Text Fragment.” When you perform a Google Search and click on a result, Google sometimes appends a special code to the end of the website’s URL (it looks like #:~:text=). When Chrome sees this code, it automatically scrolls down the webpage directly to the specific sentence you searched for, and crucially, it automatically highlights that sentence in bright yellow. While this is intended to help you find the relevant information faster, the neon yellow highlighting can be visually abrasive, distracting, and breaks the intended design of the webpage you are trying to read.
Disabling Text Fragments
To read webpages in their original, intended state and stop Google Chrome from automatically highlighting search terms using text fragments, you must disable the feature deep within the browser’s experimental flags.
Because this is a core chromium feature, there is no simple toggle in the standard settings menu. You must open a new Chrome tab and type chrome://flags into the address bar, then press Enter. This opens the experimental features menu. In the search box at the top of the flags page, type Scroll to Text Fragment. The list will filter down to show this specific flag. Click the dropdown box next to it (which will likely be set to “Default”) and change it to Disabled. A prompt will appear at the bottom of the screen asking you to relaunch the browser. Click the Relaunch button. From now on, clicking a search result will just load the top of the page normally, with no yellow highlights.