Intelligent History Feature Usage Scenario It is common for an individual to use the web to research something (e.g. a new piece of computer equipment, a recent news event etc). During this process a user may go to google.com and search out the topic and open a number of tabs related to the subject. As the user views a tab they can typically very quickly determine if it has value. Pages or tabs that have no value are quickly closed. In the end there are generally a number of pages that are found to be useful. These pages are viewed for a considerable amount of time.
Problem When searching the history it is not possible to distinguish a page that was visited only briefly as compared to a page that is studied considerably. Solution Chrome would track the time each tab is visible to the user. If a user views a tab repeatedly the ‘view time’ will continually grow. Then in the history search allow for the results to be sorted by view time. Value Proposition I believe this type of feature would make Chrome a much more valuable research tool. Also I believe it aligns with Google’s overall business model to provide the best and most useful search capabilities in the industry. Possible Issues There will likely be several pages that are always at the top of the results because the user just left the website visible and walked away from the computer or opened another application etc. However, this will be obvious to the user and can easily be skipped. Also more intelligence could be added to track the mouse movement and lockout the count when the mouse is inactive for a given duration of time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
