Comments on: Infoaxe Records Your Browsing Sessions, Lets You Search Your Web History

By: Mohan Arun L

Mohan Arun L — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:56:41 +0000

This is a good idea, I have always wanted something like this, but not all pages that I visit should be indexed, if I bookmark the page then it should be indexed and full text made available as a corpus for seareching.

By: Asya

Asya — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:54 +0000

Infoaxe > Google.

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[...] What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesn’t tap into streams from Twitter, Facebook, or Digg for content. Infoaxe’s search engine relies completely on attention data generated by the startup’s web history search engine. [...]

By: howard palmer

howard palmer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:14:01 +0000

DO NOT TOUCH WITH A BARGE POLE.
ASKING YOU TO REPLY IN 3 MINUTES is the CREEPIEST THING for any company to do and is designed to soften you up to give oyur aol pass word. Not even aolask for oyur pass word. This is pure poison.

By: kerry

kerry — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:26:11 +0000

infoaxe doesnt work properly…just tested both webmynd and infoaxe… it takes forever to index the webpages…it never shows up..its not https..its normal webpage…infoaxe says” no result did not match any pages in your Web Memory.
[PAGES TYPICALLY TAKE 2 MINUTES FROM THE TIME YOU VISIT IT TO SHOW UP IN YOUR WEB MEMORY.] ” .even after 20 MINUTES!!..still nothin…meanwhile in webmynd i could get the result immediately…and also the tumbnail…very easy..

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By: Abi

Abi — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:02:51 +0000

I would like to start by saying that one of the founders of the company “Siddharth Jonathan” is a friend of mine.. although i highly doubt if he would remember me now
We were in the same high school, college etc…
Straight to the point – w.r.t Infoaxe.
We are without doubt in an era of research where every area looks saturated… I personally felt this during my master’s research in the area of fingerprinting. Having said that – its safe to assume that the co-incidental probability that two ideas that are pretty much similar coming out at the same time is acceptable to be nearing to 1. Yes – am talking about Webmynd. Am also guessing that Chrome would have it as an inbuild feature…Anyways – the only embraceable difference my trivial mind with little knowledge can see between the two is the “pivot” feature. And the concept of portability as well. From the short list of users who have commented above [which to some degree can be extrapolated to visualize a potential market for this tool in the upcoming future] – i see that roughly 50% find the features to be useful and the other 50% find it either not so useful or not worthy enough to take the time to actually use it [these people rather prefer bookmarking or doing nothing]. I fall in the latter category. The stuff that concerns me are this – 1. why cant i find something in this tool that no other tool has [like a USP, if you will], 2. Is it really that useful or just another pain like those zillions of plugins that i install on a 5 per day basis and never even bother to use it from the next day? and so forth…………
If i was a researcher in the search area – and assuming this idea brushed through my mind – i feel i somehow would have not pursued with this idea hoping its not big enough – hey, but thats me.
Again – i sincerely hope that the tool makes it big and i wish the very best for the founders. I intentionally tried very hard to be non-sarcastic or cynical…. My apologies if there was a hint of either…….
I wanted to provide a blatantly honest review from my standpoint – and I hope the founders are craving for a lot more of these…. Rather than patronizing a concept for the sake of it.
Again – wishing you the best.
Abi –
Later!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:32:29 +0000

I just checked them out at Crunchbase; Jonathan Siddharth seems to have a strong academic background and is no doubt a smart guy, but that doesn’t particularly stand out as a reason that makes them funding-worthy. Did I miss something?

By: veronica

veronica — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:30:10 +0000

what you said in the beginning of the fourth paragraph, “I don’t think anyone is really waiting for something like infoaxe,” is exactly what i was thinking after i read the first 2 lines.

the tools we have already work; let’s focus on making them better.

By: Sainath

Sainath — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:22:24 +0000

I didn’t know how well this would work, at first. But this is pretty freakin good . Keep up the good work bro, or as we said it before the last time we met “keeping it real yo”

By: spundot.com

spundot.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:02:05 +0000

@gunarhhh: yeah, i don’t get how they got this far along without realizing what they’ve created already exists. as you mentioned, google’s web history does this (http://www.google.com/history). if you don’t want the history stored on google’s servers, use google desktop instead (http://desktop.google.com). and yes, both products have a timeline view. with regards to the noise on the video, they should invest in a quality usb headset mic.

By: Amruta J

Amruta J — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:22:47 +0000

clean interface. simple and useful tool.

By: venkat

venkat — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:09:09 +0000

This is real very useful to access our browsing history which remove head ache of bookmarking every site,If there is addition to this like we cna remove our info whenever we want and also omitting some info not to be added Infoaxe.

By: prak

prak — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:04:58 +0000

@arjun: I dont see as to why infoaxe wudnt help.. It keeps all the links that i had visited when searching for a sports streaming link… the problem is that not all links work all the time.. So it really help to have a personal web memory of all the links, which happens to be the more relevant content to me as supposed to the entire web..
A very simple query in infoaxe like “cricket” returns all the websites i had visited when i was looking for a streaming website for a cricket match..

By: Bahman

Bahman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:39:55 +0000

I’ve been using Infoaxe for a while now, and it comes really handy at some times. Actually, I find bookmarking a pain, so Infoaxe helps me not worry about missing a page after I visited it once.
Great job guys!

By: Arjun

Arjun — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:58:36 +0000

@Prak: I don’t understand how infoaxe can solve your problem (it should have the same link as you had visited kept in its memory right??).

@Tim: Search today was not the same as search in 1999. It is now that people are extremely comfortable with searching as a way to find content on the internet. Who would have thought in 1999 that searching for mails is a good way to find your old mails (still painfully slow on an outlook client but ever so useful on gmail). So maybe you were too early to market.

I don’t find infoaxe too useful for my style of internet usage since most of my information comes to me via Google reader. Also, if I want to search my history, I don’t want to think about which part of it I can search and which part I can’t (did I log in or not?). For instance, I remember visiting a page with some details on a start up company and I couldn’t find it again via infoaxe after trying various keyword combinations I had seen on the site. I can’t google for it because the keywords are pretty lame for googling the entire universe of sites but i don’t seem to find it on infoaxe because perhaps I had seen the details on some site where it required me to sign in.

By: prak

prak — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:21:54 +0000

I have just started using infoaxe, and it is pretty useful for someone like me who spends most of the time digging for stuff in the internet..
I actually dont agree with one of robin’s view that current bookmarks are sufficient enough and utilities provided by infoaxe is not something that might be extremely useful…
I spend a lot of time searching for some sports streaming websites, and i have found infoaxe to be useful in revisiting some of the already visited streaming websites.. Eventhough i bookmark the link that worked last time, it neccessarily does not work the next day… Invariably i have to search again to find an alternate link..
Thats where infoaxe comes into play, because its insane to bookmark every damn link that you visit when you search for something..

By: gunarhhh

gunarhhh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:08 +0000

@chaturnar: couldnt agree with you more. the comments here, seem shady at best. everyone seems to love this utility but, really, what is so novel? do you really want to store your history on their servers? and do you really want to install yet another tool bar? what if they go belly up, then you’ll sorely miss not storing your bookmarks. either way, they should come up with a way, to “Export my browsing history”, so it can be imported into delicious. 6 of the anonymous posters seem to love the “pivot” feature. really? seems awefully shady. anyway, google’s “Web History” has excellent analytics and for now, it seems to satisfy my needs.

By: chaturnar

chaturnar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:31:53 +0000

I really don’t buy most of the reviews posted. Why are people trying to hard-sell this utility? I think such reviews only dissuade users such as me from even experimenting with this utility. It appears as though most of the people have some vested interests in it.

I can’t help but say that the video demonstration of infoaxe was pathetic. Surely there must be a way to avoid all those extraneous sounds.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:05:12 +0000

[...] is a bookmarking service that indexes your browsing history. You have to install the Infoaxe toolbar on your IE or Firefox to be able to run the service, and record browsing sessions with just a click [...]

By: JayS

JayS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:59:48 +0000

I have used this tool for a good few weeks now, and got the link through a friend.

I usually end up doing some research for work at home, and find that I don’t remember the exact links when I am at work. I like the way I can use it to transfer my search history from home to work.

I do have some privacy concerns, however, though I believe they catalog just non-HTTPS pages.

The implementation is pretty slick and the speed is pretty nice, and I like the GUI and user interaction stuff.

By: Harish

Harish — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:38:19 +0000

Infoaxe is an amazing creation for users (like me) who very often, bookmark their favorite web pages. Being an active infoaxe user, I have no more worries to keep track of my web searches. I really recommend people to give it a shot to experience its true wonder!!

By: Vadivel

Vadivel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:04:54 +0000

A simple albeit powerful concept indeed!. Other comparable firefox plugins or open source versions have their limitations in search. To those who argue about the choice of search versus explicit bookmarking to navigate your own web history, here is a relatively simple question: Do you believe that the latter scales, given the deluge of information you plough through daily?
To those who argue about not wanting everything they visit being implicitly bookmarked here is a something to ponder: Why do you think “ranking” query results was invented?
Its amazing how quickly people post uninformed criticisms! Encouraging innovation is very important.

Peave, love, Empathy.

By: Arnab Nandi

Arnab Nandi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:44:29 +0000

“they sure seem to have a lot of (coincidentally anonymous) users”

@Robin Wauters : The founders have a sufficiently large social network, and have been good with publicizing the app. I’ve known about them for a while and it seems like a good demo.

“I’m curious how a company like this raises $900,000 before they have any users.”

@josh : Take a look at the founders’ credentials.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:40:08 +0000

InfoAxe rocks… I found this tool pretty useful to revisit a series of pages from my history across multiple systems… I especially like the pivot feature which helps to recreate browsing session from my past very easily…