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Interesting thought. I just went though my browser history and realised that almost every time I use google search, I already know what website I want, I just don’t know the exact link/page. I’ll use google because the search on stack overflow or reddit sucks but I know I’m looking for a page on one particular site.

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I realized this too. I disabled search from address bar and started bookmarking everything even remotely sane I see. I often add a few personal keywords to the bookmark bar.

It is starting to pay dividends. Instead of weird stuff thrown up by google when I type in something, I get the "oh yeah, that was the page" from a short list of bookmarks shown to match the words.

I had the same realization and ended up setting up a simple Cloudflare script to automatically do an “I’m Feeling Lucky” style search to return the first result: https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search

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