Have you ever tried to find a page you've already visited through your browser history? Of course you have. Did you ever find it? Well…
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A brief history of the World Wide Web
You'd think that browsing history would be a rich seam when searching for, well, anything. Previously visited pages have already been selected – by you – and should appear at the top of all searches. And yet, your browser's history feature is probably rubbish. Half the pages you visit seem to be missing, and what about the actual words on those pages? Why can't you search for them? That's where Zhenyi Tan's history book comes in. It saves all that automatically and still maintains your privacy.
"I tried those read-it-later/bookmark manager apps before, but [I] gave up because it was too much cognitive load," History Book developer Zhenyi Tan told Lifewire via email. "I kept thinking 'is this article worth saving?' when I read something on the internet. Then after saving the article, I tagged them with keywords to help with the search later. Then I would star the one that really had to read -these It was like tending a Zen garden.In the end, I never read most of the articles.
Google can remember your search history, and depending on how you've set things up, privacy-wise, it can track a lot more. But what we're interested in here is a way to find the website you once visited. The one you can't seem to find again with any Google or DuckDuckGo searches. The page that was exactly the one you wanted, but seems to have disappeared.
