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Show HN: Recawl - a search engine for your web history

#1

Post by _grrr » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

#2

Post by mcrittenden » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

Doesn't Chrome already store full-text history?

#3

Post by _grrr » Sat, Aug 06, 2011, 10:40 AM UTC

mcrittenden wrote: post #2

Doesn't Chrome already store full-text history?

It does, but it also has bookmarks and there are a number of bookmarking services that all improve on the basic browser offering in some way.

When I first started Recawl Chrome's history search was somewhat unreliable/buggy although it has improved since then.

I also find Chrome's history search hard to use.

For example:

You cann't constrain a search by time period and you cann't block sites from appearing in the results.

Recawl suggests keywords related to your current search and it also learns to re-order results for search terms based on your previous click history.

Your Recawl history is available to search remotely whereas Chrome's history is only local.