Searching for marked (selected) text in Emacs

Question

I use emacs for viewing and editing code and other text files. I wanted to know if there is a way to search forward or backward for text which is marked in the current buffer. S

Answer 1

The answers above (including the accepted one) are too cumbersome IMHO. I found the following info and like it well better:

“Ctrl+s Ctrl+w”. This will search the current word, but you must move your cursor to the beginning of the word first.

http://xah-forum.blogspot.com/2009/08/search-word-under-cursor-in-emacs.html