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Google listened to my idea!

Paul — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:00 +0000

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.

Paul — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:12:00 +0000

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

Paul — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:51:00 +0000

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.