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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by Paul_S on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:26PM (#10037858)
Reminds me of when canononical did something similar with ubuntu and extended searching your applications to searching merchandise on amazon and other stores. It's really funny when you open the start menu equivalent at work to launch the terminal* and as you type "t" you get to see items you can buy - one of them being "The Simpsons". Genius.

* before you complain I use the start menu to launch the terminal: I never remember ubuntu shortcuts, it's meta+t on my system

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by Macha on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:13PM (#10038100)
This behaviour bit me in the ass in work today. Had a new Mac, just installed Polycom (our video conferencing program), typed Polyc<enter> out of habit in spotlight to launch it, ended up on the wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome...
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by to3m on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:42PM (#10038212)
I rarely use the Spotlight or Start Menu keyboard searching because of stuff like this. If it doesn't reliably produce the right result each time if you only type a small amount of the name - which it doesn't - what's the point?

(Call me crazy, but because of this I've come to not mind the basic Windows 8 start screen. It's not as good as the classic start menu, but compared to the Windows 7 one you can at least arrange it for quick access to a larger number of programs.)

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by ZoFreX on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:18PM (#10038566)
This. I previously loved Spotlight but it's getting strange in its old age. For example, if I type "i" or "it" or "ite" or "iter", Spotlight predicts "iTerm". But if I actually type "iTerm" in full it takes me to "Go2Shell" in the App Store – because it has the word "iterm" in the patch notes of the most recent version. Useful.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by almostdvs on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:26PM (#10045667)
I use quicksilver and gnome do and launchy. The searches never worked the way should for me either.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by oliyoung on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:56PM (#10038683)
You can change the order (and availability of) Spotlight results in the System Prefs http://imgur.com/iElMwe7
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by ansible on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:42AM (#10040283)
With Ubuntu, I had tried to launch brasero, the CD burning application, so I start typing 'bra...' and start seeing ads for women's bras. Thanks Ubuntu, that's helpful.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by thejosh on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:47PM (#10038236)
Which you could turn off without any problems. The issue with Windows 10 that is still being reported is that it searches when you turn that feature off.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by davidgerard on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @06:27AM (#10040042)
"I wanted to update/install my nvidia drivers, so I opened the dash and typed "drivers". IT DISPLAYED GOLF CLUBS on sale at Amazon!"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bikeshed/vtXkVdALoJ8/N...

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by freehunter on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:15AM (#10041188)
Ubuntu shortcuts are the worst. Why are they not consistent with other Linux distros, I'll never understand.
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