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http://dowser.sf.net http://dowser.sf.net A desktop metasearcher + archiver + personal search engine. It got lost in the noise when Google & Yahoo had their pi
by aristus 18y ago
http://dowser.sf.net http://dowser.sf.net
A desktop metasearcher + archiver + personal search engine. It got lost in the noise when Google & Yahoo had their pissing match over desktop search in late 2004. The failure wasn't inexplicable: it was just too much work for one person... which makes the quote on the bottom of the page bitterly ironic.
- cousin_it 18y agoI guess nowadays such things are made as Firefox extensions, e.g. Breadcrumbs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2954 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2954 .
- aristus 18y agoYep. When the Slogger plugin came out I decided Dowser's time had come & gone.
- anotherjesse 18y agoDowser is/was amazing. When I was at Flock I would always use it as the example of what we should be doing with search in the browser. Mozilla's start page with the google box is nice but nothing compared to dowser.
- aristus 18y agoThat's... actually very cool and gratifying to hear. Thank you. :)