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Considering my favorites run over 300 - you can safely bet I forget about most of them!
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easy solution: every 'n' months / weeks / days (basically when i feel like it) i go through myadded favs, and add any links i expect to use to my personal homepage, to wich, coincidently, my browser is set...
in other words, at the start of my browser i have the links i use most, done
in other words, at the start of my browser i have the links i use most, done
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OK, reason I ask is because search engines are one of my pet hates. They eat up time returning crap and are increasingly compromised for commercial reasons. Now I'm not against people earning a buck or two (or even a million, I wish I was one) but even then search engines as we know them are destined to become more and more useless (I state this as an undisputable fact 
). What's missing? Intelligence! And no amount of coding can replace it, mainly because any automated indexing method anyone can think of is imperfect and open to abuse.
Assumption: Much of what we really want/ need is already embodied in links stored in millions of browsers.
Think about it. You have already trawled the web, applied your undisputably greater intelligence (you are more intelligent than a search engine aren't you!?) to filter the results, categorised them and store them for, supposedly, future reference. Problem is the format in which this info is stored is useless, there are no tools supplied to make better use of it, it's difficult to maintain, has (potentially) a short life span and is totally inaccessible to others (even to you if you are on a different machine).
I have thought about this many times and now believe any solution has to be open source, free and contributed to by as many people as possible. There is no solution that could generate a profit *and* attract the level of ongoing free cooperation that is required in practise to make it a viable alternative to search engines. This is why I'm offering the idea up for public consideration.
Think of file sharing as an analogy but not too deeply because this idea is restricted solely to links. The idea is a method to grab your links, make them publicly available (anonymously), categorised and searchable based on the links themselves, your categorisation of them (eg, via folder names) and maybe your particular interests. You in effect become a searchable "node" in a distributed *intelligent* search engine (I say "intelligent" because of what I stated earlier). The client will allow you to search these (distributed) nodes, re-sort results according to various criteria, include/exclude nodes and present results as a sort of graphical semantic map, the leafs of which will be the links to actual websites. The end result is a context map of sites that are, as far as possible, much more relevent to what you are seeking. Of course "Garbage in, garbage out" still applies here but I think sheer numbers and a rating system will minimise any garbage.
So? Would you like to comment? Or even help flesh out the idea, spec a solution and implement an open source PB application? What you get in return: kudos, joy of cooperating, experience, and who knows maybe the ability to say YOU were involved in the development of a radically new search engine!
PS: There are existing standards (ratified and evolving) that would help. See "The Semantic Web: An Introduction" and "Getting Into RDF" for some background reading. Note that I don't believe a first version has be all that complicated, just a simple test bed for the idea.
). What's missing? Intelligence! And no amount of coding can replace it, mainly because any automated indexing method anyone can think of is imperfect and open to abuse.Assumption: Much of what we really want/ need is already embodied in links stored in millions of browsers.
Think about it. You have already trawled the web, applied your undisputably greater intelligence (you are more intelligent than a search engine aren't you!?) to filter the results, categorised them and store them for, supposedly, future reference. Problem is the format in which this info is stored is useless, there are no tools supplied to make better use of it, it's difficult to maintain, has (potentially) a short life span and is totally inaccessible to others (even to you if you are on a different machine).
I have thought about this many times and now believe any solution has to be open source, free and contributed to by as many people as possible. There is no solution that could generate a profit *and* attract the level of ongoing free cooperation that is required in practise to make it a viable alternative to search engines. This is why I'm offering the idea up for public consideration.
Think of file sharing as an analogy but not too deeply because this idea is restricted solely to links. The idea is a method to grab your links, make them publicly available (anonymously), categorised and searchable based on the links themselves, your categorisation of them (eg, via folder names) and maybe your particular interests. You in effect become a searchable "node" in a distributed *intelligent* search engine (I say "intelligent" because of what I stated earlier). The client will allow you to search these (distributed) nodes, re-sort results according to various criteria, include/exclude nodes and present results as a sort of graphical semantic map, the leafs of which will be the links to actual websites. The end result is a context map of sites that are, as far as possible, much more relevent to what you are seeking. Of course "Garbage in, garbage out" still applies here but I think sheer numbers and a rating system will minimise any garbage.So? Would you like to comment? Or even help flesh out the idea, spec a solution and implement an open source PB application? What you get in return: kudos, joy of cooperating, experience, and who knows maybe the ability to say YOU were involved in the development of a radically new search engine!
PS: There are existing standards (ratified and evolving) that would help. See "The Semantic Web: An Introduction" and "Getting Into RDF" for some background reading. Note that I don't believe a first version has be all that complicated, just a simple test bed for the idea.