Opposable Thumbs

This is just a collection of random thoughts that were floating through my head last night before I fell asleep. And, yes, I do think about these sorts of things often. That's why I'm a geek... It seems to me that searching for information on the web really makes more sense when done in context. That is, Google and the like are great for finding certain kinds of information when you're interests are very general, but they can often be a real pain when searching for something very specific. That is, unless you know some relevant details about the item you're searching for. But that's not often the way it works when you're trying to track down a long lost resource. For instance, you might remember that you saw this web page you're looking for sometime last month. But Google doesn't know anything about that. Now, bookmarks and browser history provide this kind of information. That is, they can provide it. But there's currently no way to bridge this gap. Not to mention that services like del.icio.us and Furl add another layer on there. Besides that fact that they store the information about your bookmarks remotely (making things in theory much easier to interface with a service like a search engine), they also add on features like tagging. Which, obviously can be exploited.