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Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by bobviolier »

exikyut wrote: post #11
DennisP wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Chrome if you open the history and hit "show full history," you get a search bar that works better for history.

Where's "show full history"? I don't see anything resembling that, nor any obscure dropdowns or popouts that might be hiding it.

⌘+Y On the mac. It's the bottom option in the history menu.

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by bobviolier »

agotterer wrote: post #12
DennisP wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Chrome if you open the history and hit "show full history," you get a search bar that works better for history.

But you can’t search inside the content. It just searches the titles.

Does Firefox search IN the content of the pages you visited?

Almost can't imagine and in my test just now, that did not work.

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by jklehm »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #14
diggan wrote: post #4

One of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox is that Firefox seems to already be doing this. At least it searches all parts of the URL and the title, so I'm 99% successful at getting the right URL in the awesomebar when I'm looking for something. Chrome is just horrible when it comes to this, and I can never get back to previous pages when searching via the addressbar.

Chrome does this deliberately because they want you to do another google search instead of looking at your history.

Citation?

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by jabgrabdthrow »

jklehm wrote: post #25
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome does this deliberately because they want you to do another google search instead of looking at your history.

Citation?

Is that your attitude towards all conspiracy theories? You’re so smart, you’re way ahead of the guy who said “that’s an eye opener”!

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by boramalper »

jklehm wrote: post #25
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome does this deliberately because they want you to do another google search instead of looking at your history.

Citation?

Well just try it yourself, it’s really that simple.

On the other hand, Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) does this too so maybe it’s simply a UX decision rather than an evil plot to send more data to Google, though I personally believe that it’s the latter…

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by o_____________o »

agotterer wrote: post #3

I’ve tried to find a solution to bookmark searching for a while. I’ve never found a product I liked or trust. Lately I’ve been manually adding bookmarks to a custom google search engine. I’m considering building an extension that will add them directly or sync chrome bookmarks. I figure google already knows what I’ve searched, so I feel much less sketchy about it. Would this extension be interesting to anyone? It wou…

This product appears to index your bookmarks, did you see that?

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by Pistos2 »

I get the point of this, but me personally, I prefer to have aspects of me forgotten/gone rather than remembered, stored and searchable in the future. Yes, it's true that, about once every two months, I am looking for something that I swear I came across on the Internet at some point. However, the rest of the time, I'm able to re-find it just by doing another search, whether on search-engine-of-choice, or a search box on particular-website (e.g. socnet, stackoverflow, reddit, github, hacker news...).

Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

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Post by o_____________o »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #6

I nice idea, but an open source browser plugin with all local storage would fit my needs better. I prototyped something roughly like this several years ago. I wrote a simple Firefox plugin that communicated with a locally running server written in Closure with a Clojurescript web app for browsing that used the same server backend. I stopped working on the because services like Evernote do a better job, at the loss of…

> I nice idea, but an open source browser plugin with all local storage would fit my needs better.

This seems like it's local search. Are you saying you wish it was open source? The only cloud feature seems to be something about highlighting.

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