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SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by gingerjoos »

ilija139 wrote: post #6

"40% of searches online are people simply looking for what they have already seen before." - How did they calculate this statistic?

If I remember correctly, this was the result of some research done by a startup. Or was it Google? I couldn't tell you because this service didn't exist back when I read that article

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by adambyrtek »

gingerjoos wrote: post #12
adambyrtek wrote: post #8

How is this different from Google Search History? https://history.google.com

GSH searches only within your Google search history. This guy searches through your entire browser(s) history.

Thanks, I was confused by the fact that this integrates with Google Search.

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by crntaylor »

Obvious 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, they just nuke the whole thing. How is your tool different?

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by derekorgan »

crntaylor wrote: post #14

Obvious 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

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by rickdale »

crntaylor wrote: post #14

Obvious 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…

I take advantage of my browsers history with porn. When I was in college the first bash script I wrote was to open a movie in my porn collection that I hadn't watched in the longest time. This was great. But now with streaming porn sites I don't have a huge collection and I often watch scenes that I can't seem to find later. There is a lot of porn out there.

Sure people clear their browser history because their embarrassed by their porn obsession, but I think this tool could be very useful for pornaholics too.

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by vinnyglennon »

crntaylor wrote: post #14

Obvious 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).

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by ankimal »

Interesting idea. Some quick questions:

- How much data do you store per user?

- How do I delete certain results? (preferably after the search comes back)

- Another thing to consider is - After how much time does this just become as painful as finding that page through a search engine?

- What version of the page gets stored? The latest or the one that I saw?

I guess its one step better than Evernoting a page and adding tags myself.

Good luck!

Re: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

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Post by vinnyglennon »

chuppo wrote: post #15
nuttendorfer wrote: post #5

Who am I handing my data over to? I can't find this anywhere on the site.

And would it be possible to configure it to use my own "cloud"?

Definitely something we are looking into. Major barrier is the cost for someone keeping a server running 24*7 in cloud(Micro instance on AWS is 175 dollars a year).
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