Fully agree, I used to be the same but if I can’t find it again through a search engine it was probably not important enough. So far I was able to track down everything I wanted.
My searching the internet completely switched over from search engines to bard.google.com, because it gives me a super nice summary on a topic I was researching, instead of a link list. Saves me a couple hours every week, and is also fun and less exhausting.
I search for things I've written/published myself all the time. stuff really lives in the same place for more than a few months/years, and I forget where they were anyway, and often forget 90% of what's in it, so search is much faster at getting me there than trying to navigate the n+1th iteration of the website.
At some point I started searching directly in del.icio.us over google because it would give me higher quality results. I guess someone bookmarking a site was proof enough it was useful.
I find myself doing the same, especially when searching for something that I am considering purchasing. I don't need Google, Youtube, Amazon, etc trying to sell me alternatives to whatever I've already made an informed decision on
You google for them, then you rephrase to be concise to what you wanted, and in doing so help commit them to memory, and commit them into a publicly visible resource -- where somebody else might find them by googling.
It's not REALLY useful, but at the same time it's really useful.
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