[danielovichdk]

My usage with browsing is not relevant for this. I don't want to "chat" with my browsin g history. I would simply love my browser would index my bookmarks on my OS so I could search the actual content of those bookmarks.

The feedback loop coming gained from chatgtp will I assume always be way better than my local gpt equivalent.

But often I bookmark pages where I know the information on there are important enough for me to come back to more than once.

So I have started crafting out a solution for this. It crawls your bookmarks on your local browser storage, downloads those pages and adds them to your search index on your OS.

That's been an itch for me for years.

[groestl]

Small data sets suffer from bad recall in full text search. So a bit of smart fuzzyness added to the search by AI could improve the experience on locally indexed bookmarks quite well.

[jval43]

Didn't Chrome do this at the very beginning, when it was initially released? I faintly remember that being a feature.

Personally I would already be content if my browsers didn't forget their history all the time, both Firefox and Safari history is way too short-lived.

[ayewo]

You were probably thinking of Google Desktop which could search almost anything on your machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

[jval43]

I went looking and it was indeed Chrome that could do it. See screenshot from 2009 here: https://superuser.com/a/42499

Google removed the feature intentionally in 2013: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=297648

Apparently Opera supported it too at the time, and from the comments Safari as well.

Performance reasons seem to have killed it. I'd think that after 10 years now any modern computer would be able to handle it.

[ayewo]

That's an interesting find.

[overstay8930]

Isn't this just Safari? *using a modern chip