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> no one wants to close tabs because they might not find that one critical page again

And most of the things in the tabs don't meet the threshold for bookmarking them, because the overhead of maintaining bookmarks makes one want to only bookmark things that are used often.

I’d pay for a local program that would fully text index every page I visit forever so I can search for them again quickly.

So basically bookmarks and history devolved into tabs for people? I do notice the difference between my Firefox installation (with 'live downloaded' search suggestions disabled), where I mostly can pull anything I want from the past, and the times when I have to use Chrome, which at least by default makes it difficult to recall a page visited even a moment ago. (Yes, technically you have history hidden in menus.) I would dread living that in normal browsing.

Google's lack of search quality affects hardware specs. Better at answering general questions and less good at finding a specific thing, especially from a few months ago.