[hhsuey]

I think you're right. However, personally, I can - 95% of the time - remember a few words from the page that allows me to search it on Google. 95% is conservative figure. I honestly don't remember the last time I couldn't find something. Might have been a year ago. Furthermore, it's usually much more accurate to simply search your own browse history. Granted, one might need to delete the history or that can get large, but I usually only need to search for something within a year of the last retrieval.

[idlewords]

One thing I've learned from running a bookmarking site is that people have vastly different experiences and practices with re-finding stuff online, which sometimes makes it hard not to talk past one another. It turns out the way we remember, find, and re-find stuff is very idiosyncratic, and the success of it depends a lot on the subject domain.

[mulmen]

Google search quality has been in freefall for a while and I'm never sure if the "Verbatim" button will still exist on my next search. I have zero faith in the repeatability of a Google search, especially with a delta of months.

Also my memory is perfect, I can't remember anything I have forgotten.