Datarag vs. Chrome history
With Chrome's history, you find a page by remembering its title or URL; with Datarag, you find it by describing what was on it, because Datarag indexes each page's content and Chrome keeps only the address.
Both keep a record of where you've been. Only one lets you search your browsing history by what you actually read. For the full picture of the product, see What is Datarag?
What Chrome's history does
Chrome's built-in history stores the title and URL of each page you visit. Its search box matches against those two fields and nothing else. There is no full-text search: if a word appeared in an article's body but not its title, Chrome's history can't find the article by that word. Chrome also only keeps about 90 days of history; anything older is deleted automatically, so a page you read four months ago is gone from it.
What Datarag adds
Datarag indexes the content of every page you read, so a phrase, a topic, or a detail you remember is enough to find the page again. You can search in plain language, or open the AI chat and ask a question that gets answered using your history as context — two ways to retrieve the same personal web memory. There is no 90-day cutoff: pages you read years ago stay as searchable as the ones you read today.
That history syncs across browsers and devices, so a page you read on one machine is searchable on another. Datarag runs on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Arc, and other Chromium-based browsers. Google Meet transcripts are captured and indexed too, so meetings are searchable alongside pages.
What stays out either way
Datarag doesn't capture incognito or private browsing. NSFW filters automatically keep adult, gambling, and social media content out of the index. Everything that is indexed is encrypted with a key derived from your personal PIN — see how Datarag handles security for the full detail.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from Chrome's built-in history?
Chrome's history only stores page titles and URLs, and its search only matches those. Datarag indexes the actual content of each page, so it works as an AI browser history search — you can find a page by describing what was on it, not just its title or address.
Does Datarag keep a permanent record of everything I read?
Yes. Datarag builds a permanent browsing history that doesn't disappear when your browser clears its cache. It acts as a personal web memory you can search anytime, from any device you use it on.
Can I search my Chrome history from Firefox or another browser?
Not with Chrome's own history — it stays inside Chrome. Datarag keeps one history across Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Arc, and other Chromium-based browsers, so a page you read in Chrome is searchable from any of them, on any device you use Datarag on.