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I think what could be cool is applying this as a personal search engine and marrying it somehow to a personal dns server or squid/proxy server so that you can h
by ohiovr 8y ago
I think what could be cool is applying this as a personal search engine and marrying it somehow to a personal dns server or squid/proxy server so that you can have a way of harvesting your own browsing data. By using the squid or dnsmasq logs you could spider out urls from it, and build your index automatically.
- medecau 8y agoYou can already search your browsing history. Non-centralized personal search engines have a few challenges to solve before they're feasible. 1) The web cannot support thousands or even millions of spiders/crawlers. 2) Search indexes are (probably?) too huge to distribute. See the commoncrawl project. It's TB for a few Billion pages. 3) Assuming a single crawler collects the necessary data, indexes can be easily distributed, and the search engine software is simple to set-up, who is going to subsidise this effort?
- ohiovr 8y agoShared browsing search could be a thing maybe as a hobby only though. Probably the only way to make it work is if "you want the privilage to search you must serve too" kind of motto.