202103040000, March 4, 2021

• I keep looking at Microlink so I guess I should at least post a quick journal log before I write it up more:

• From the home page:

• Browser as API

Fast, scalable, and reliable browser automation built for businesses and developers. Proudly open source.

• You can turn websites into structured data, take screenshots, turn pages into PDFs, and more. Power embeds, etc

• The list of open source components is super interesting.

• Brave Browser bought a search engine, “promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version”.

• Good timing for clearing my tabs of other Brave related stuff. This PDF white paper describes the Brave Search Team’s plans — Goggles:

• This paper proposes an open and collaborative system by which a community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from. Instead of a single ranking algorithm, we could have as many as needed, overcoming the biases that a single actor (the search engine) embeds into the results.

• via Daring Fireball