Personal Search Engine Enters the Scene
October 25, 2013
So you read an article and you know you will want to explore that topic further in the future. What do you do? Bookmark it. Moments later, you find yourself on a great new social analytics search engine. That gets bookmarked too – in addition to many other Web sites and articles that you might want to remember to revisit one day. When that day arrives, it can often be troublesome to locate the specific link you wanted to find amongst all the others you have bookmarked. This is why services like PSE (Personal Search Engine) are incredibly useful. We recently read a helpful write-up on PSE in particular: “PSE Is A Personal Search Engine, Makes Browser Bookmarks Useful Again.”
PSE does not require a download. It is a bookmarklet and it works in any browser except for Internet Explorer. It appears that mobile usage is a potential future update that the developers are exploring.
The article tells us:
“The service is great for articles, but it’s especially good for research or other snippets of information that you know you’ll need later not based on the page title or where you found it, but the actual content of the page you were reading. If you stumble on a site with a great recipe, for example, highlight the recipe and add it to your database. Then later you can search for ‘garlic’ and find it, instead of trying to remember that the recipe was on ‘easycheapweeknightdinners.com.’”
While this service definitely seems like a step in the right direction towards supplementing our invariably fallible memories, it may not be the be-all, end-all of search. What about a personal search engine that truly allows a user to search every folder, email, bookmark across multiple applications, devices and more?
Megan Feil, October 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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