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maha1979
11y ago
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.
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maha1979
11y ago
Hi Nik, yes, we had some trouble with the load yesterday, you could try now if you like, its all sorted out.
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maha1979
11y ago
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'
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maha1979
11y ago
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.
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maha1979
11y ago
Definito! Can you connect at dev@tryheld.com? We'll keep you posted!
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maha1979
11y ago
Firefox version, coming your way soon! Care to connect at dev@tryheld.com? We'll keep you posted.
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maha1979
11y ago
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.
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maha1979
11y ago
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
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maha1979
11y ago
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 throwi
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maha1979
11y ago
Worked very well for our test user base of 30 users, hopefully it'll be useful to others as well
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maha1979
11y ago
Will do, thanks!
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maha1979
11y ago
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 u
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maha1979
11y ago
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 ra