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I love this idea, but the name “digital footprint” sort of implies it’s what effect you’ve had on the Internet for helping keep your online persona under contro

I love this idea, but the name “digital footprint” sort of implies it’s what effect you’ve had on the Internet for helping keep your online persona under control: your tweets, comments, emails, et cetera. But this is a great idea! Having a search engine for vaguely _anything_ you touch very much does look like it’d increase the signal:noise ratio. It’d be interesting to be able to add whole sites (using, say, DuckDuckGo as an external crawler) to be able to fetch general ideas, such as, say, “Stack Exchange posts marked with these tags”.

flanbiscuit 5y ago
> but the name “digital footprint” sort of implies it’s what effect you’ve had on the Internet for helping keep your online persona under control: your tweets, comments, emails, et cetera. I had the exact same thought when I saw that in the title. That would also be a cool idea to be able to search within your own online accounts. So this is what the project's description of what "digital footprint" means: > Apollo is a search engine and web crawler to digest your digital footprint. What this means is that you choose what to put in it. When you come across something that looks interesting, be it an article, blog post, website, whatever, you manually add it (with built in systems to make doing so easy). If you always want to pull in data from a certain data source, like your notes or something else, you can do that too. This tackles one of the biggest problems of recall in search engines returning a lot of irrelevant information because with Apollo, the signal to noise ratio is very high. You've chosen exactly what to put in it. If I'm interpreting this correctly, this seems like an alternative way of bookmarking with advanced searching because it scrapes the data from the source. Cool idea, means I have to worry less about organizing my bookmarks.

flanbiscuit 5y ago

> but the name “digital footprint” sort of implies it’s what effect you’ve had on the Internet for helping keep your online persona under control: your tweets, comments, emails, et cetera. I had the exact same thought when I saw that in the title. That would also be a cool idea to be able to search within your own online accounts. So this is what the project's description of what "digital footprint" means: > Apollo is a search engine and web crawler to digest your digital footprint. What this means is that you choose what to put in it. When you come across something that looks interesting, be it an article, blog post, website, whatever, you manually add it (with built in systems to make doing so easy). If you always want to pull in data from a certain data source, like your notes or something else, you can do that too. This tackles one of the biggest problems of recall in search engines returning a lot of irrelevant information because with Apollo, the signal to noise ratio is very high. You've chosen exactly what to put in it. If I'm interpreting this correctly, this seems like an alternative way of bookmarking with advanced searching because it scrapes the data from the source. Cool idea, means I have to worry less about organizing my bookmarks.