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I would like to see a local search engine. I have been thinking about it for a long time. A local program that intercepts/caches what I am searching. Then it can search in this cache before requesting anything online (maybe even summarize, graph content). It could work offline too. Privacy could me one of its best features.

EDIT: typo




That is basically the spotlight search in iOS / Mac.


It is a start, but not close to what I mean.

It could store the actual body of the page I browse and search in those directly, extract figures, summarize. It would be implemented as a kind of man in the middle getting the actual content. Next time you could search the local content, cutting the link with google for a lot of the searches.


Been thinking the same thing, we should chat!




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