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I like the idea of searching my own online service accounts, but how do they implement visibility layers ? There are reasons why online services don't allow ind
by wildmXranat 16y ago
I like the idea of searching my own online service accounts, but how do they implement visibility layers ? There are reasons why online services don't allow indexing content.
The outcome could be either really good or a privacy nightmare.
- knowtheory 16y agoMost of the service revolves around you authenticating greplin (using oauth or xauth) to provide them with a feed of your data. Greplin's core service really is tied into reading all of your stuff. That is a privacy nightmare in some regards, but all of this data exists in other services already, so you trust someone else with it. Question is whether you trust Greplin i suppose!
- arst 16y agoThere's also a difference between trusting various bits and pieces of your data to exist on a variety of online services, and trusting a single service to aggregate all of your data from everywhere. A local version of Greplin would be more interesting to me; I think the Locker project https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker might make that possible someday.