At some point I realized I have more than enough local disk space to maintain and run my own local search engine. So I have been saving and indexing every page

At some point I realized I have more than enough local disk space to maintain and run my own local search engine. So I have been saving and indexing every page of my browsing history and bookmarks for the past 3-4 years. I have a local copy of wikipedia/stackoverflow and offline docs via Zeal. The only time I need google these days is for casual map location/distance queries. I am too lazy to type out the details of my setup but it works quite well. I point people at this link and the associated search project for similar ideas - http://aurelieherbelot.net/how-small-is-the-world-wide-web-really/ http://aurelieherbelot.net/how-small-is-the-world-wide-web-r... Initially the only thing that I missed out on and struggled with was news (cause at the time google news had been my default homepage for a while). After trying all kinds of url/keyword blocking at various levels (browser/host file/router) I am finally down to 2 hours of internet a day. Why am I doing all this - cause the web today (including hacker news) is just wasting my time. Tim Wu makes the case much better than I could here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xm-1CoAuw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xm-1CoAuw8