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HTML

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.0/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.0/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<table id="R" class="display">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Date</th>
            <th>Rating</th>
            <th>Timestamp</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tr>
        <td>30.03.2014</td>
        <td>15.678 million viewers, #1; 10.157 million adults 18-49 (8.00 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1396137600</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>23.03.2014</td>
        <td>13.467 million viewers, #1; 8.458 million adults 18-49 (6.66 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1395532800</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>16.03.2014</td>
        <td>12.865 million viewers, #1; 8.075 million adults 18-49 (6.36 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1394928000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>09.03.2014</td>
        <td>12.652 million viewers, #2; 8.004 million adults 18-49 (6.30 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1394323200</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>02.03.2014</td>
        <td>12.607 million viewers, #5; 8.137 million adults 18-49 (6.41 rating), #3</td>
        <td>1393718400</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>24.02.2014</td>
        <td>13.122 million viewers, #2; 8.428 million adults 18-49 (6.64 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1393200000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>16.02.2014</td>
        <td>13.339 million viewers, #2; 8.670 million adults 18-49 (6.83 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1392508800</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>09.02.2014</td>
        <td>15.760 million viewers, #2; 10.367 million adults 18-49 (8.17 rating), #1</td>
        <td>1391904000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>01.12.2013</td>
        <td>12.051 million viewers, #5; 7.732 million adults 18-49 (6.09 rating), #4</td>
        <td>1385856000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>24.11.2013</td>
        <td>11.293 million viewers, #9; 7.179 million adults 18-49 (5.65...

CSS

.filterMatches{
    background-color: #BFFF00;
}

JavaScript

// HIGHLIGHT FCT
jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oApi.fnSearchHighlighting = function (oSettings) {
    // Initialize regex cache
    oSettings.oPreviousSearch.oSearchCaches = {};

    oSettings.oApi._fnCallbackReg(oSettings, 'aoRowCallback', function (nRow, aData, iDisplayIndex, iDisplayIndexFull) {
        // Initialize search string array
        var searchStrings = [];
        var oApi = this.oApi;
        var cache = oSettings.oPreviousSearch.oSearchCaches;



        // Global search string
        // If there is a global search string, add it to the search string array
        if (oSettings.oPreviousSearch.sSearch) {
            searchStrings.push(oSettings.oPreviousSearch.sSearch);
        }
        // Individual column search option object
        // If there are individual column search strings, add them to the search string array
        if ((oSettings.aoPreSearchCols) && (oSettings.aoPreSearchCols.length > 0)) {
            for (var i in oSettings.aoPreSearchCols) {
                if (oSettings.aoPreSearchCols[i].sSearch) {
                    searchStrings.push(oSettings.aoPreSearchCols[i].sSearch);
                }
            }
        }
        // Create the regex built from one or more search string and cache as necessary
        if (searchStrings.length > 0) {
            var sSregex = searchStrings.join("|");
            if (!cache[sSregex]) {
                var regRules = "(",
                    regRulesSplit = sSregex.split(' ');

                regRules += "(" + sSregex + ")";
                for (var i = 0; i < regRulesSplit.length; i++) {
                    regRules += "|(" + regRulesSplit[i] + ")";
                }
                regRules += ")";

                // This regex will avoid in HTML matches
                cache[sSregex] = new RegExp(regRules + "(?!([^<]+)?>)", 'ig');
            }
            var regex = cache[sSregex];
        }
        // Loop through the rows/fields for matches
        jQuery('td', nRow).each(function (i)...