Google web history needs the social web

Slight off topic to my usual stuff… A while ago I had the idea and did a little development with a few friends on what we called WebBrayne. That is, your brain on the internet. The whole idea was the logging of your search history and being able to search that history. Basically a Google for where you’ve been, or stated differently, a much more advanced History button because you can search all the contents of where you’ve been, not just the title. This makes for even more accurate results as you already have a conceptual idea as to what you’re looking for and what it says, and the result is going to be more accurate based on where you’ve been as opposed to everywhere on the net.

Well, the bandwidth requirements among other things was too much, so WebBrayne never came to be… from us at least. But Google has now taken a big step in creating it in a web form (it was in a desktop form via Google Desktop before, but limited imo) via the new viewing and managing of your web history. Seeing as how they’re already on it, and how I’m obsessed with a social web, I’ll pass on a few ideas I had been thinking for WebBrayne.

How big is your brayne?
With WebBrayne, the idea was to add a few “fun” widgets in. So logging certain things like the number of times you search your Brayne (how much you use your brain) and how much was in your brayne (how many sites you’ve been to) would be logged in a fun kind of fashion. In this case, the widget would follow with the size and activity of your WebBrayne. This could be expanded to the amount of “intelligence” gained based on a site, etc.

Share the knowledge
Sharing is caring! At least that was the case in kindergarten, and it’s coming back around a bit more now… or something. With this thought, you could do something I only wish you could do in real life. Link brains together I think I’d link up with someone like Seth Godin and one of my favorite designers. Anyways, the idea is to have a friend on WebBrayne and give him permission to link brains with you. With this, you could search your linked brains for what you’re looking for, possibly coming up on someone else’s knowledge, or you could simply search your own. Better term? Search Telepathy.

Keep the bad stuff out
Let’s face it- some people have things in their Brayne they don’t want others to know about. Thus filters become important. Adding filters to certain things burry them deep in your subconscious, so deep no one who is linked to your brain could find it… only you. Or remove it from your searches, too! Be careful, though! Who knows when you might have a Freudian slip! Haha. Just kidding.