Search things I have seen
Posted by Martin Homik | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 02-11-2008
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I often get into a situation in where I search information I have seen somewhere in the Internet. It could be a blog entry, a comment in a forum, some business website etc. When I go to Google, I always get results based on statistics to which all users contribute. But I ususlly search for hits that I have already seen. The more often I have seen them, the higher the ranking should be. So, a good approach for my problem would be:
- Track the pages which I have visited. That could be done via a Firefox plugin. This has to be stored somewhere.
- When I add a search term, it should check the pages I have seen first and then propose hits I a am not aware of.
Do you know any service that provides this feature? Probably something from Google?
Check out Google’s Web History, which is used to give personalized search results: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=54068&topic=14149
Sure, the location bar of Firefox!
Indeed since version 3, that location bar does like good old OmniWeb: its inputs are queries to the set of URLs and page titles, the result-set being displayed as autocompletions…
For example, if you type “nabble appfuse”, without quotes, I am sure you get the nabble forum page…
It could be more elaborated but it’s so lightweight!
Paul