I've created content on numerous Web properties:
- Emails in Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail
- Chats in Gmail
- Photos on Flickr, Orkut and Picasa Web
- Tweets on Twitter
- Comments on Facebook
- Bookmarks and Videos on YouTube
- Posts on GMAT Club
- Questions on LinkedIn Answers and Yahoo Answers
- Blogs on Blogger
- Scraps on Orkut
- Contacts in Google Contacts and Yahoo Contacts
- Documents in Google Docs and Zoho
- Files on SkyDrive
- Events, etc., on Google Calendar
- Etc.
I know no service that allows me to conduct a search on all the content created by me, lurking on various Web properties owned by different companies. And I think that the world needs such a service. A service that allows me, for example, to conduct a search for the term Chrome, and retrieve all the content related to Chrome that I've created online. Creating such a service will be a tall order, and will involve APIs, business-interests, privacy, security, etc., but that doesn't mean that such a service won't be worth the effort.
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