Apple and Mozilla aren’t Google. Apple runs their own searches on the App Store and iPhone, but Google pays them to be default. There’s no reason Apple couldn’t also index your search history in a more meaningful way other than perhaps space requirements.
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alway wonder why browsers don't keep at least a text version of the pages for search
nowadays I expect browsers to incorporate small LLMs like Mistral out of the box
if history search worked better then you would visit google/bing less, so I expect pushback from browser vendors
also: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=297648
From a comment on that issue page, dating a little over a decade ago:
Yes, those were good times. Nowadays, it's anathema to software vendors, and increasingly even to open source devs.
Not every browser vendor runs a search engine…
Apple and Mozilla aren’t Google. Apple runs their own searches on the App Store and iPhone, but Google pays them to be default. There’s no reason Apple couldn’t also index your search history in a more meaningful way other than perhaps space requirements.
Another advertising revenue win for Query Jerry from marketing.
Opera used to do this! And then when you searched in the top bar, it would also search your visited pages. It was very useful.