Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
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Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#2this project has been around for a while, see also some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13427360
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#3I’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 would be very simple, open source, and have no middle man. It would send links directly to a google CSE via their API.
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#4One 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.
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#5This seems a very interesting project. I'll see how this works in practice.
It starts to get icky when you notice the devs have a business plan to outsource the indexing to the cloud, but there's a commitment to keep the servers parts open source too, so that you can self host.
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#6I 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 some privacy.
Edit: I didn’t intend to imply that Evernote reads or uses user data.
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#7Sadly there is a lot to improve to be useful. I had horrible results with the searches.
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#8I 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…
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#9I’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…
I would have privacy concerns, because I'm not using Google all the time for my searches and there is no need to give them even more data.
The only solution I'd accept is one where all data is stored and indexed locally and there are good guarantees that deleted entries are actually deleted and/or wiped from the indices.
Re: Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
#10One 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.
In Chrome if you open the history and hit "show full history," you get a search bar that works better for history.