{"id":57,"date":"2010-07-06T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=57"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:22:26","slug":"google-page-ranking-and-how-i-find-once-already-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Google page ranking and how I find once already found"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I return to already visited web pages? I never (or very occasionally) bookmark web pages<\/strong>. I have around 100 bookmarked pages which I haven’t used in a few years or even more. I also have 26 bookmarks in Bookmarks toolbar<\/a><\/strong> in Firefox which are always visible (favicons only and not the text) but I rarely use these as well. I often type the address<\/strong> in the location bar and Firefox would suggest me pages that I already visited. I often select a page just after typing in three letters. I also use a RSS<\/a> reader<\/strong> to read news from web sites I’m interested in and I often open these sites from a reader. Occasionally (one or two times a year) I use browser’s history<\/a><\/strong> as well but I never order it by time and I always use keyword search. I do use "Recently closed tabs"<\/strong> as well if I want to return to a tab I know I recently closed. Another technique I use is simply Google<\/strong>. I rely on Google a lot. I tried to use other search engines as well but I really like the minimalistic approach (which is becoming more bloated with time)<\/p>\n

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Today I tried to find train prices between Birmingham Airport and the main train station in Birmingham<\/strong>. I knew I visited a web site last September<\/strong> (11 months ago) and I thought I could recall it from a list of pages returned by the search engine (sometimes they are even marked as visited). I typed<\/strong> "birmingham international airport train"<\/em> and the firs result was a "Page not found"<\/strong> site. I had a good laugh. It’s surprising that Google keeps 404 pages<\/a> in their index. Ok 404 pages are nicer than they used<\/a> to be (provided by a web browser) and they contain images and links and they don’t look like 404 pages anymore …. But still. First result on a list a 404 page made me laugh :). Thx Google. <\/p>\n

If anyone is interested there are many papers on how people use bookmarks and find information on the web:<\/p>\n