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In the case of pages with login, Fetch will only be able to store the title of the page, but not the content. We are working on integrations to connect services to Fetch search, we currently have Gmail, Dropbox and Google Drive on our list. Any particular service you want search to be available on?
Hi Nik, yes, we had some trouble with the load yesterday, you could try now if you like, its all sorted out.
The search results are ranked by engagement, so yes, if you're currently looking at a page related to say python and spend lots of time on it, then when you search python on the extension, it will show up near the top. But what we've noticed is that the ratio of useful pages to useless pages in browser history is very high, and so when we rank by engagement, all valuable pages end up on top. Hope this answers your query.
atrophying, we're working on a privacy page that lays out our privacy policy in user-friendly terms. Give us a couple of days to get this sorted. thanks for the input.
Firefox version, coming your way soon! Care to connect at
[email protected]? We'll keep you posted.
Its pretty heavy running all the software on a local machine. Would consume resources and tons of storage. Maybe if you bought a server, it could work out. Or maybe we could set you up with a private server...just thinking aloud.
The Fetch backend works pretty much like a crawler, what Google sees, it sees...private content is not indexed, e.g. your gmail mails, but the titles are indexed so there is still some usefulness in the search. We may add functionality for the user to sign in to these services so we can index them. E.g. the user may add his google account ao we can index mails etc. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
You can block sites from the settings button in the extension
Our plan is to work with an initial customer base to create enough features to let users support us directly through paid features, instead of resorting to mining data and throwing up ads to sustain. Thats your best clue as to why we're not interested in your data. We don't have a motive to do that.
Worked very well for our test user base of 30 users, hopefully it'll be useful to others as well
Also, to answer why an extension for Browser History:
1. Fetch indexes page content as well as the titles and URLs of your history, making it easy to find links
2. Fetch ranks search results by engagement which means the most useful links usually surface on top when you search.
Hey Zuxfer,
I'm the developer of the extension.
Totally valid point, we thought a lot about privacy, and our approach to managing the issue is two fold
1. Your browsing history isn't identifiable on our databases since we use a random hash from your credentials to track your history.
2. We have absolutely no interest in using the data, even non-identifiable data for marketing purposes
3. We leave the final control in your hands, if you feel your privacy is breached, you can clear all your data from our servers and uninstall the extension.
Here's our privacy policy for reference - https://getfetch.net/privacy.html