[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsin...
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Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsing history
Hi, I'm Peter, co-founder of Browspilot. I built Browspilot, a
minimalistic tool, to help you recall anything you have ever seen
online using any clues you remember, or just scroll through your
past activity. Browspilot is perfect for popping up pages you use
a lot but don't want to keep open all the time or digging up stuff
from way back. Whether you're a student researching papers, a
professional balancing multiple projects just type in what bit you
recall in the moment, and boom, it's there. Looking ahead, we're
excited to take search to the next level. We're working on features
that'll let you integrate and search across different apps and find
things based on meaning--including images--using advanced vector
search techniques.
Author : peterpelles
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-07-03 11:41 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (chromewebstore.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (chromewebstore.google.com)
| peterpelles wrote:
| I'd love to hear your feedback - please share your thoughts and
| suggestions in the comments!
| dotcoma wrote:
| Was browsepilot.com not available ?
|
| (brows looks weird to me)
| KomoD wrote:
| They have both browse and brows.
| Leftium wrote:
| One of the features I wish Kagi had was the ability to search
| through my previous search queries. More details here:
| https://kagifeedback.org/d/4065-query-personal-search-histor...
|
| Maybe Browspilot could fill this gap!
|
| One thing I noticed is my search history is like a zero-effort
| personal journal. It gave me a detailed glimpse of what I was
| doing/thinking on a certain day from several years ago.
| peterpelles wrote:
| Thanks for this. Very useful!
| peterpelles wrote:
| I read your feature request on Kagifeedback. With our tool,
| Browspilot, you can currently recall pages you have visited
| based on keyword matches. Given that you can also search the
| body of a page and sometimes the comments too, it's already
| quite useful, and I'm confident you will be able to find most
| of the things you're looking for most of the time. It was
| almost surprising to us too, how easily one can actually find
| stuff - given you are searching in a limited dataset, which is
| your own search history as opposed to everything like you do in
| google - just by typing in words that appear somewhere on the
| page you are looking for, as opposed to having to click a bunch
| of times and navigate through apps, messages, or emails to find
| a link again.
|
| However, I believe that once we introduce the advanced vector
| search, which we are already testing in our beta version, you
| should be able to find the page you are looking for in
| Browspilot with absolute certainty just by typing words related
| in meaning into the search box, so you won't even need to
| remember your exact search queries.
|
| We will also be adding image search capabilities soon.
| janice1999 wrote:
| How do you plan to make money? The obvious answer would be
| selling people's data. What is your alternative?
| KomoD wrote:
| Gives me really bad vibes, sending all your browsing history,
| page info, etc. to some server, including screenshots of your
| tabs.
|
| You also say it doesn't save in incognito but I can't find
| anything in the source code to support that claim.
|
| I see a bunch of other red flags too, like no obvious
| monetization, the privacy policy saying updated in 2021, but then
| a little bit further down it says updated in 2019 (neither makes
| sense as the domain was registered in 2023), privacy policy
| sometimes says Nision Research LLC and sometimes Nision Research
| Kft, the chrome web store page has an email for "gethaystack.com"
| but the privacy policy says info@browspilot.com (and that
| gethaystack site has a policy saying "info@localhost"), both of
| the reviews on the chrome web store are by people clearly
| affiliated with browspilot, the FAQ says you can't delete things
| from your history, privacy policy doesn't say where your data
| gets sent (i see mentions of firestore, firebase in the code, but
| it does not appear in the privacy policy)
|
| Also this claim on your home page "Your data will only be read
| and used by you." doesn't align with what your privacy policy
| says.
| beeboobaa3 wrote:
| Where is my data stored?
| NVI wrote:
| Why do I need to log in with Google to use it? I'm also
| experiencing a bug where after logging in, I see the same login
| popup over and over again.
| bradrn wrote:
| This reminds me... some time ago I made my own Firefox extension
| to do full-text search of all my webpages. It's in three parts: a
| server running in the background to interface with an SQLite
| database, a minimal extension to send text to that server, and a
| little GUI to query the database.
|
| Unfortunately, all this makes it an utter pain to set up. It's
| also somewhat specialised to my own very minimal needs. When I've
| mentioned it in the past, people have suggested open-sourcing it,
| but for these reasons I've resisted it. This post now makes me
| wonder if I should look into ways to improve it...
| KomoD wrote:
| > When I've mentioned it in the past, people have suggested
| open-sourcing it, but for these reasons I've resisted it.
|
| Could just open-source it "as is", there's probably some people
| that would be interested in just messing around with it or
| using it as a base
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