class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/recall-moneky.jpg?54167" alt="browser history search engine" />We have previously covered a few great class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/browsing-history/">browsing history tools. For example, we have shared class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/structure-firefox-browsing-history-fromwheretowhere/">FromWhereToWhere which structures your web history effectively as well as class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-extensions-to-search-and-organize-your-firefox-browsing-history/">4 more extensions to search and record browsing history. Today’s addon is another worthy history search tool to check out.

class="vt-p" href="https://mozillalabs.com/prospector">RecallMonkey is a new promising project by class="vt-p" href="http://mozillalabs.com">Mozilla Labs aiming at making it easier for you to find pages you have previously visited. Obviously, the addon is based on your Firefox history database, so it will only dig as deep as you let your browser access (you can change your browser history settings in Tools -> Options -> Privacy. There use the drop-down to select “Use custom settings for history“).

Testing The Addon

Get the addon class="vt-p" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prospector-recall-monkey/">here (it requires no restart). Once you have it installed, access RecallMonkey using the icon in the Addon Bar or the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + M (Cmd + Shift + M for Macs).

The main thing the addon does is expand your search results. Your default history search tool (accessed with the Ctrl + H shortcut) can only search by exact match whereas RecallMonkey ranks pages in your web history “based on how closely your search query and document matches“.

For example, searching my history for [software and tips] using the built-in option, I am only able to find MakeUseOf (because it has both the words in the title). Using RecallMonkey, I am getting dozens of results which are also very relevant.

Compare:

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Apart from this, the addon offers a few other options.

Filter By Time

With the default history search you can only sort by time. RecallMonkey uses Google-like date-filtering options that let you see results you visited:

• During the past 24 hours;
• Last week;
• Last month;
• Last year;
• All time

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“Prioritize” Or Exclude Websites

Apart from time-frame-based filters, we are offered two more ways to control the results: prioritizing and excluding websites:

• By prioritizing a result (using a Reddit-like up arrow next to it), you are prompting the tool that you want to see more results from this domain;
• By excluding a result (using a + sign next to it), you are forcing the tool to filter this domain out from the search results.

For example, you remember that software review was on MakeUseOf, so you can prioritize MakeUseOf results (by clicking the up-arrow sign next to it):

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You can also prioritize all your bookmarks in search results which also sounds like a great way to find results you once liked. This option should come in handy for bringing up pages which are hidden away in the bookmarks database (especially unsorted bookmarks which you saved years ago).

To conclude, this looks like an awesome tool. The fun features above coupled with Instant (as-you-type) search results and infinite scroll (the page adds results as you scroll to the bottom) make it almost as awesome as Google.

The best features of the tool which I really liked:

• The ability to dig deep into the search history and find results which only “mention” one of the search terms I was using (as well as the ability to retrieve local files that I opened in Firefox);
• The speed and user-friendly interface (which looks like the developers have adopted some great Google design trends)

What are your thoughts about the tool?

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With emerging technologies comes great change which always ends up affecting people who do not like change, this is actually what is happening certain scholars who claim to Web browsers which come built into smart portable devices such as the iPhone will end up taking away some of our freedom to browse the web and access information the way we are used to. Such remarks are for the most part attributed to the way Web browsers are coded in these devices for instance, PC and MAC are both pure platforms which have open source browser complications that are often improved and debugged by programmers and even those who use the applications, but when it comes to portable devices and smart phones we are limited to the applications which are locked down and controlled by the manufacturer.

The iPhone is a device which allows people to access the web just the way it is, without any changes or major distortions of the web browser which is used is not very flexible, updates and changes to this technology are only developed by the maker of this device, some people might argue that this is actually a good move from the manufacturer itself due to the fact that the browser is not very vulnerable to all the bad things that come with allowing the user to specify certain settings and modify the way applications are meant to work.

Leaving the web browser aside let’s provide some numbers which have been mostly the cause of concern among those who study with patterns and statistics, recent publications had revealed that almost 0.23% of the American traffic is actually coming from portable devices, specifically from users who own iPhones, these numbers were actually revealed by a very well trusted statistics website called Statcounter.

With more and more people access to the Web through portable devices which are capable of rendering the web just the way it is, it is obvious that the market demand will increase as many others will also want to gain access to the Web without any limitations which is a strong selling point of the iPhone, it will be very interesting to see the market trends that this technological shift will have the communications sector as well as in the web development communities.

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