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by graderjs 1518 days ago
Desktop file search sucks. But I think you mean you don't have trouble finding pages you've visited before just using a search engine.

That's good but that's not everyone's experience. Sometimes you're like oh what's that page but you just can't find a way back to it because you didn't discover it through a search engine originally.

You discovered it through some recommended article on some other website or you discovered it through social media or someone sent you a link. And you can't remember where you saw it but you know you saw it and there was something in there that you wanted, but you can't find it through search because you've never actually searched for it before, you tried to search it now but it didn't work, and sometimes that happens. That's a real thing that happens.

If you think about it around the world like if this happens to you say four times a year and there's you know 3 billion people online that's happening a lot of times (hundreds of millions of times) every day and you could save a lot of time for people if there was some solution to this.

Your experience is valid, and I get if you've never experienced that and that's cool, that's a good thing--that's great!--but that's not everyone's experience.

And there's a lot of cases for me where this has happened and I found it really annoying you know like I couldn't find something that I know that I visited and it's really annoying because you try and find it and it takes longer than you think it should, and sometimes you can't find it at all it's like the word that's on the tip of your tongue, but you just don't get it. I definitely think it is a pain point, that is a market opportunity.