I wish Google would create a separate index of all the stuff I bookmark, and provide it as a subset of the Google search experience. I too find myself Google searching for info Ive previously browsed.
This post convinced me to replace google.com as my default search engine. It's better to do that at my own convenience, than to be forced later when the switch costs become too large.
It's incredible how google shaped my expectation of looks of a search page results. I was like - WTF is that page? - oh... I've changed my search engine... Go figure.
Google created their own browser in order to embed Google search as your default search engine and homepage. Not because of an altruistic quest to make the web faster.
I was shocked the first time I realised that Google stores all you search queries by default. Typing things in a website seemed like a private activity, and all of a sudden, it wasn‘t. Years of history, mostly mundane, some queries mildly embarrassing, and a few that I really wanted to keep to myself.
I deleted all the data, immediately, logged out of Google, and started to reduce my reliance on Google. I switched to Fastmail for Email, use Duckduckgo for searches, and I try to use a variety of routing apps, even though none are as good as Google Maps.
I‘ve become paranoid with regard to form fields on the web. I stopped trusting websites. I use an incognito tab for Facebook, hoping that‘ll stop them from correlating my day to day browsing with my profile. I stop myself before I type a name into the search box, worrying that the algorithm would draw conclusions...
So the only thing that differentiates this from Google is the ability to save some preset search booleans?
What happens once Google adds that functionality? It already has the same types of options (inurl:, +/-, etc.), adding the ability to save them is a trivial addition.
Plus, with all the search engine privacy hoopla in the last few years, wouldn't people be concerned about having to be logged in while you search?
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