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Hi HN, Scout Search is a Find-in-Page replacement that uses semantic search (rather than character matching) to help you find what you're looking for on websites. Try it out and le…

Good question. There is now a default local-only search option that has virtually no latency.

Hey HN! If you're fed up with how Ctrl+F works and can't seem to find what you need on websites, check out this chrome extension. It performs simple searches locally. Advanced sear…

Will look into this.

The exposed API key is temporary while a backend is setup. The IP address is not stored by Scout - will look into the OpenAI policy.

Yes this is the case.

It relies on an external search API. No data is recorded or saved

Thanks for the feedback. I'm still busy putting together the parts of this project which is why the privacy policy is barren. Scout doesn't save what you search, it's doing a direc…

Good idea, will get on that.

It's just a browser extension for now - maybe one day soon.

I'm still seeing where I will take this project, but yes I agree with you.

Good point, I'll look into this to see if performance is improved.

Hi HN! Ctrl+F sucks because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for. I built an NLP-based alternative that works pretty damn well. Let me know what you think. P.s. it will so…

Hello HN, I was fed up with having to use Ctrl+F because I could never find what I was looking for, so I build an NLP based Find in Page alternative that works pretty damn well. Le…

Oh yeah. I was annoyed with ctrl+f and its exact spelling requirement, so I wrote an NLP based ctrl+f replacement that works pretty damn well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de…