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I've had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I'm sure I've browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn't s

I've had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I'm sure I've browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn't show up in search. I don't tend to have a clue about the time window it would be in either so I can't go looking for it, so I can't prove it.

Puer 9y ago
Chrome history may as well be useless and/or developed by the same people who created Reddit search.
- jakecopp 9y ago
  I feel that it is intentionally bad so people don't realize how much Google knows about them.
  - Puer 9y ago
    Meanwhile their image recognition gets better and better. For those of you who use Google Photos backup, try a keyword image search in Google Drive sometime of your untagged photos ("beach", "face," etc.) You'll be creepily surprised on what Google is indexing, even against what they claim they don't (try some sketchier words).
    - fyfy18 9y ago
      I can one up that: I was living in Dubai a few years ago and have a number of photos of fancy cars I could never even dream of affording. If I search for “Lamborghini” or “Rolls Royce” it gives me the photos of those cars. I’ve never tagged them and I’m not an Android user, so they aren’t reading my messages. https://imgur.com/caz8D2Y https://imgur.com/caz8D2Y I even have four photos I took at night, in burst mode, as a Bughatti Veyron zoomed passed, and yes, it can recognise those...
      - whatusername 9y ago
        iOS photos app does this as well.
        dingo_bat 9y ago
        Samsung gallery app does this as well. You can even search for stuff like "selfie".
        wangweij 9y ago
        Maybe every photo using the front camera is a selfie?
        dingo_bat 9y ago
        Didn't think of that obvious solution!
        fyfy18 9y ago
        It does generic terms like "cars", but it doesn't work for specific brands (at least on my 5S).
      - Puer 9y ago
        All modern gallery apps have some rudimentary photo recognition, but I haven't found any but Google's that will allow you to search terms like "topless/nude" and find accurate results. I would never store photos like that with Google, but I've confirmed it works, and with how many promotions Google has run offering free photo storage with their latest phones there are undoubtedly thousands and thousands of unwitting users who have sensitive photos not just automatically backed up in some Google server, but categorized. Just imagine if these servers were to be hacked and that information was conveniently pre-arranged for extortion.
        fyfy18 9y ago
        I understand image recognition searching for generic terms like "cars", but my point is this can even recognise brands. And it only returns photos matching that brand, so it isn't replacing "Rolls Royce" with "cars" to do the search. I guess it makes sense to do this, given that most things they do is based selling ads, I'm just surprised it is this accurate.
    - aikinai 9y ago
      Where has Google claimed they don't index certain terms?
    - wingworks 9y ago
      I searched for "paper" today and one of the results was a toilet :P But yes I agree, it has been getting better.
      - taneq 9y ago
        Was there toilet paper in the picture? :P
      - wingworks 9y ago
        Just had a look, turns out there was haha. Guess that's why then.
    - gambiting 9y ago
      Maybe, but it's also incredibly poor at the same time. When I search my photos for "dog" I get many many pictures of cats. But that's sort of understandable, since they are both 4-legged animals, right? Well, then I don't know why searching for "dog" also brings up pictures of birds I have in my google photos. It's great about 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% it's hilariously and completely wrong.
dingo_bat 9y ago
Chrome is much better than Edge in this regard. I have a website bookmarked and tagged with a very rare specific word. In edge, typing the keyword will never show up my bookmark. Instead it shows crap from around the world. Firefox and chrome do the right thing, my bookmark is the first suggestion.
Trufa 9y ago
I'm just glad I'm not the only one!
confounded 9y ago
The address Bar in Firefox is great for this. I fire off a fraction of the searches I used to after switching.
dkns 9y ago
I remember not too long ago a colleague of mine gave me address to internal monitoring system that we use. I tried to find it few minutes later in chrome omnibar by typing almost exact url i.e. page was aaa.bbb.com so I typed aaa bbb. It gave me nothing, just search suggestions. I'm guessing chrome does it on purpose. The less browser history they search in chrome and show back to you the more you'll go to google web search and that's ad money for them. That's why I'm back on Firefox after quantum release. I hope mozilla never, ever, ever does something like this but I remember seeing something similar on nightly once. It gave you search suggestions first, that redirected you to google, with option to disable it in settings.
baud147258 9y ago
I think Chrome history might be limited in time. Something like 3
- baud147258 9y ago
  Something like 3 months. I forgot a word apparently.

Puer 9y ago

Chrome history may as well be useless and/or developed by the same people who created Reddit search.

jakecopp 9y ago
I feel that it is intentionally bad so people don't realize how much Google knows about them.
- Puer 9y ago
  Meanwhile their image recognition gets better and better. For those of you who use Google Photos backup, try a keyword image search in Google Drive sometime of your untagged photos ("beach", "face," etc.) You'll be creepily surprised on what Google is indexing, even against what they claim they don't (try some sketchier words).
  - fyfy18 9y ago
    I can one up that: I was living in Dubai a few years ago and have a number of photos of fancy cars I could never even dream of affording. If I search for “Lamborghini” or “Rolls Royce” it gives me the photos of those cars. I’ve never tagged them and I’m not an Android user, so they aren’t reading my messages. https://imgur.com/caz8D2Y https://imgur.com/caz8D2Y I even have four photos I took at night, in burst mode, as a Bughatti Veyron zoomed passed, and yes, it can recognise those...
    - whatusername 9y ago
      iOS photos app does this as well.
      - dingo_bat 9y ago
        Samsung gallery app does this as well. You can even search for stuff like "selfie".
        wangweij 9y ago
        Maybe every photo using the front camera is a selfie?
        dingo_bat 9y ago
        Didn't think of that obvious solution!
      - fyfy18 9y ago
        It does generic terms like "cars", but it doesn't work for specific brands (at least on my 5S).
    - Puer 9y ago
      All modern gallery apps have some rudimentary photo recognition, but I haven't found any but Google's that will allow you to search terms like "topless/nude" and find accurate results. I would never store photos like that with Google, but I've confirmed it works, and with how many promotions Google has run offering free photo storage with their latest phones there are undoubtedly thousands and thousands of unwitting users who have sensitive photos not just automatically backed up in some Google server, but categorized. Just imagine if these servers were to be hacked and that information was conveniently pre-arranged for extortion.
      - fyfy18 9y ago
        I understand image recognition searching for generic terms like "cars", but my point is this can even recognise brands. And it only returns photos matching that brand, so it isn't replacing "Rolls Royce" with "cars" to do the search. I guess it makes sense to do this, given that most things they do is based selling ads, I'm just surprised it is this accurate.
  - aikinai 9y ago
    Where has Google claimed they don't index certain terms?
  - wingworks 9y ago
    I searched for "paper" today and one of the results was a toilet :P But yes I agree, it has been getting better.
    - taneq 9y ago
      Was there toilet paper in the picture? :P
    - wingworks 9y ago
      Just had a look, turns out there was haha. Guess that's why then.
  - gambiting 9y ago
    Maybe, but it's also incredibly poor at the same time. When I search my photos for "dog" I get many many pictures of cats. But that's sort of understandable, since they are both 4-legged animals, right? Well, then I don't know why searching for "dog" also brings up pictures of birds I have in my google photos. It's great about 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% it's hilariously and completely wrong.

dingo_bat 9y ago

Chrome is much better than Edge in this regard. I have a website bookmarked and tagged with a very rare specific word. In edge, typing the keyword will never show up my bookmark. Instead it shows crap from around the world. Firefox and chrome do the right thing, my bookmark is the first suggestion.

Trufa 9y ago

I'm just glad I'm not the only one!

confounded 9y ago

The address Bar in Firefox is great for this. I fire off a fraction of the searches I used to after switching.

dkns 9y ago

I remember not too long ago a colleague of mine gave me address to internal monitoring system that we use. I tried to find it few minutes later in chrome omnibar by typing almost exact url i.e. page was aaa.bbb.com so I typed aaa bbb. It gave me nothing, just search suggestions. I'm guessing chrome does it on purpose. The less browser history they search in chrome and show back to you the more you'll go to google web search and that's ad money for them. That's why I'm back on Firefox after quantum release. I hope mozilla never, ever, ever does something like this but I remember seeing something similar on nightly once. It gave you search suggestions first, that redirected you to google, with option to disable it in settings.

baud147258 9y ago

I think Chrome history might be limited in time. Something like 3

baud147258 9y ago
Something like 3 months. I forgot a word apparently.