Google listened to my idea!

Apr 22 2005

Look!Goo­gle lis­te­ned to my idea! January 7th, I sent this email to their ideas factory:

I often search for mul­ti­ple things and find the ans­wers I am loo­king for. Howe­ver, it is rare that I book­mark the pages or the search strings I ente­red after gai­ning the know­ledge I seek. My his­tory keeps only a limi­ted num­ber of searches made and sif­ting through the past pro­ves time con­su­ming. So; say I wished to once again find the page which held the infor­ma­tion I searched for over a month ago — if I did not remem­ber the site or the search term, or say the site appea­red on page 90 of results, it could once again be awfully time con­su­ming fin­ding the page again.

My sug­ges­tion is some sort of his­tory that is saved to your goo­gle pro­file (much like the won­der­ful froo­gle wish­list!). Something that
saved the search string, the pages clic­ked and pos­sibly some way of high­ligh­ting the page that had the answer.

Deve­lop­ment of this could allow peo­ple to make their lists public (e.g. through an atom feed) and com­pi­la­tions of search strings and
ans­wers could further aid the goo­gle search engine through some sort of addi­tio­nal ranking.

Any­way, this is my idea and I hope you like it.

Two days ago they relea­sed this:
Goo­gle Per­so­nal Search History

A quote by David Moore.

Jan 14 2005

David Moore: “Ours is a gene­ra­tion overwhel­med by frus­tra­tion, unrest, dread, and tra­gedy. Fear is wholly per­va­sive in Ame­ri­can society, but we manage nonethe­less to build our defen­ses in subtle ways– we scoff at arbi­trary, color-coded ‘threat’ levels; we receive our infor­ma­tion from come­dians and laugh at poli­ti­cians. Upon the turn of the 21st cen­tury, we have come to know our iso­la­tion well. Our self-imposed soli­tude ren­ders us poli­ti­cally and spi­ri­tually inert, but rather than take steps to heal our emo­tio­nal and exis­ten­tial wounds, we have cho­sen to revel in them. We con­sume the affec­ted martyr­dom of our pur­por­ted idols and spit it back in moc­king defiance. We for­get that ‘emo’ was once deri­ved from emo­tion, and that in our buying and selling of per­so­nal pain, or the cyni­cal appro­xi­ma­tion of it, we feel nothing.”

Morse Code Alphabet

Dec 9 2004

Morse Code Alpha­bet: “A .-
B -…
C -.-.
D -..
E .
F ..-.
G –.
H .…
I ..
J .—
K -.-
L .-..
M –

N -.
O —
P .–.
Q –.-
R .-.
S …
T -
U ..-
V …-
W .–
X -..-
Y -.–
Z –..

0 —–
1 .—-
2 ..—
3 …–
4 .…-
5 .….
6 -.…
7 –…
8 —..
9 —-.
Fulls­top .-.-.-
Comma –..–
Query ..–..”
Just because.