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Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to ha

Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.

nashashmi 2y ago
browser history seems to only save the last 3 months of history. It used to be many years of data but that also slowed the browser down.
yaj54 2y ago
And you think that hasn't been made yet? :-D Show HN: DeepHN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582 Of note, I was able to find that item (which I recalled existed but not by what name) with hn.algolia, but I was not able to find it with the OP search engine, or with the DeepHN search itself. So in my book, Algolia is winning. But projects like this are super fun and educational to build so props to OP.
- metadat 2y ago
  OP said they only indexed the past 6 months.
- seaal 2y ago
  Perhaps someone will be able to help me find a website I’ve been trying to Google for with no luck: the main focus of the website is a music player with 3D pipes and arrows that the camera would follow along, live rendering the entire scene while music was playing, but it was also a personal blog if you scrolled down. Domain was relatively short and I think it started with K.
ofermend 2y ago
Currently it's indexing the content of stories and comments. Are you suggesting also to index the content of the main story link (which is outside HN)?
- squigz 2y ago
  That is what they're suggesting, yes.
- cottsak 2y ago
  maybe add metadata to the index, but not the full page content, else you're just gonna build another google
  - metadat 2y ago
    How so? There's no PageRank in sight here, very little spam to worry about or contend with.
fluential 2y ago
This already exist: "searching over the titles, text and URLs of sites you've visited before" -- https://www.browserparrot.com/ https://www.browserparrot.com/
- kid64 2y ago
  Mac-only

nashashmi 2y ago

browser history seems to only save the last 3 months of history. It used to be many years of data but that also slowed the browser down.

yaj54 2y ago

And you think that hasn't been made yet? :-D Show HN: DeepHN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582 Of note, I was able to find that item (which I recalled existed but not by what name) with hn.algolia, but I was not able to find it with the OP search engine, or with the DeepHN search itself. So in my book, Algolia is winning. But projects like this are super fun and educational to build so props to OP.

metadat 2y ago
OP said they only indexed the past 6 months.
seaal 2y ago
Perhaps someone will be able to help me find a website I’ve been trying to Google for with no luck: the main focus of the website is a music player with 3D pipes and arrows that the camera would follow along, live rendering the entire scene while music was playing, but it was also a personal blog if you scrolled down. Domain was relatively short and I think it started with K.

ofermend 2y ago

Currently it's indexing the content of stories and comments. Are you suggesting also to index the content of the main story link (which is outside HN)?

squigz 2y ago
That is what they're suggesting, yes.
cottsak 2y ago
maybe add metadata to the index, but not the full page content, else you're just gonna build another google
- metadat 2y ago
  How so? There's no PageRank in sight here, very little spam to worry about or contend with.

fluential 2y ago

This already exist: "searching over the titles, text and URLs of sites you've visited before" -- https://www.browserparrot.com/ https://www.browserparrot.com/

kid64 2y ago
Mac-only