Dup of Archify?
> 40% of searches online are people simply looking for what they have already seen before.
Citation link needed.
SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before
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#22"40% of searches online are people simply looking for what they have already seen before." - How did they calculate this statistic?
"According to Yahoo, 40% of searches are simply searching for what you saw before."
https://www.seenbefore.com/pages/faq#currently_do
They should link to the study.
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#23I love the date visualization. This is something I think that pretty much all search results could benefit tremendously from.
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#24Dup of Archify? https://www.archify.com/ > 40% of searches online are people simply looking for what they have already seen before. Citation link needed.
Citation link:
http://cond.org/sigir07.pdf [PDF]
Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo’s Logs
Abstract: "This paper explores repeat search behavior through the analysis of a one-year Web query log of 114 anonymous users and a separate controlled survey of an additional 119 volunteers. Our study demonstrates that as many as 40% of all queries are re-finding queries. Re-finding appears to be an important behavior for search engines to explicitly support, and we explore how this can be done."
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#25Obvious point to raise: the reason people regularly delete their browser history is because they watch porn without turning on private browsing. How do you propose to deal with this? You'd need to provide at least the ability to selectively delete portions of the history. But you can selectively delete portions of your browser history too, and people don't - because it would be too easy to miss something. Instead, th…
Vinny Glennon, One of the founders here. Thanks very much for the up votes. The Chrome extension does not work in private browsing. I have a set of porn sites(1.7 million stored in redis) that I check if incoming links are a member of. You can selectively block sites ( https://www.seenbefore.com/blacklist_items ).
Where did you get your list from, and can you share it?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vinny Glennon, One of the founders here. Thanks very much for the up votes. The Chrome extension does not work in private browsing. I have a set of porn sites(1.7 million stored in redis) that I check if incoming links are a member of. You can selectively block sites ( https://www.seenbefore.com/blacklist_items ).
Where did you get your list from, and can you share it?
For research purposes.
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#27Beat me to it! This was something I had been planning to build on my own for a while, but didn't get around to . Congrats! Whenever I have tech discussions with friends I would recall something mentioned in a article I read via HN. But it would take me a whole lot of effort to get that link. Oftentimes I simply couldn't get hold of the link even after an hour of searching. Please do get the Firefox extension out. Wou…
cofounder here. Our first version spidered out for the content but a far more efficient way was to upload compressed version of the data from the user as we can then do hash checks for reference counting. Chrome extension has been used in the wild for last 3 months on 6 continents. Firefox extension too unstable at the moment(also Mozilla ten day review process), but hope to get it out with 1-2 weeks. Would love any feedback, good or bad!
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#28Obvious point to raise: the reason people regularly delete their browser history is because they watch porn without turning on private browsing. How do you propose to deal with this? You'd need to provide at least the ability to selectively delete portions of the history. But you can selectively delete portions of your browser history too, and people don't - because it would be too easy to miss something. Instead, th…
Porn sites are not recorded
How does your system define "porn sites"? What about if it was some porn site no one has ever heard of with an innocent-sounding name/domain?
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#29Dup of Archify? https://www.archify.com/ > 40% of searches online are people simply looking for what they have already seen before. Citation link needed.
Citation link: http://cond.org/sigir07.pdf [PDF] Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo’s Logs Abstract: "This paper explores repeat search behavior through the analysis of a one-year Web query log of 114 anonymous users and a separate controlled survey of an additional 119 volunteers. Our study demonstrates that as many as 40% of all queries are re-finding queries. Re-finding appears to be an important be…
Wow, does 240 people even count as a sample. At Yahoo and Google log sizes its probably the error from cosmic rays in the data center.
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#30I'll take it for a spin... this is something I've wanted for a long time.
I was going to hack it by making chrome bookmark every site I visit with a tag:history then when I wanted to search for a site that I've already visited I was going to just search with that tag.