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1. jval43 · 1789667302 · focus · HN ↗

   Google Chrome did this in 2008. Full-text search over all visited pages, stored offline. It was very useful and I miss it.

   Nobody seems to remember it, even though it was a headline feature. Was removed in 2013, I think due to technical constraints.

   Will definitely try this.

   1. ericol · 1789683230 · focus · HN ↗

      Not sure if the same product. I think the one I used was Google Desktop.

      I even hacked it for a company I was working for at the time: I installed it in a machine that had a lot of pdfs from some other client company of them.

      I don't recall the exact details, but I did some sort of proxying between the Microsoft Web Server that came with NT? at the time and G Desktop, and then an entire team of first support agents had almost instant search across all those docs. Good times.

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