Updating a search index using reported browser history data

A system for updating a search index with newly published documents comprising:

• a first computing device, having a processor coupled to a memory, configured to receive an application which is configured to generate a history file
• that includes an indication of each of one or more uniform resource identifiers (URIs) accessed by a browser application executing on the first computing device and metadata indicating a time of day when the URIs were accessed, wherein the application and the browser application are the same or different, wherein the history file includes one or more URIs, and wherein the first computing device is a user computing device;
• a second computing device, having a processor coupled to a memory, configured to receive the history file;
• the second computing device configured to determine a new URI from the one or more URIs in the received history file that is previously unknown to the second computing device;
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• the search index configured to update automatically without user interaction with the new UM, the search index being useable by a search engine to identify search results for a search query.

A system for updating a search index with newly published documents comprising:

• a plurality of groups of one or more user computing devices, each user device having a processor coupled to a memory and configured to receive an application, the application configured to generate a history file that includes an indication of each of one or more uniform resource identifiers (URIs) accessed by a browser application executing on each of the user computing device and metadata indicating a time of day when the URIs were accessed, wherein the application and the browser application are the same or different, wherein the history files include one or more URIs;
• a server, having a processor coupled to a memory, configured to sequentially receive the history files from each group of the plurality of groups of one or more user computing devices based on a predetermined schedule for each
• group of one or more user computing devices, wherein the history files from each group of the plurality of groups of one or more user computing devices forms a group of history files;
• the server configured to determine upon receipt of each group of history files a new URI that is previously unknown to the server from the one or more URIs in one of the history files in the received group of history files;
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• the search index configured to update automatically without user interaction with the new URI, the search index being useable by a search engine to identify search results for a search query.