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Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by jjoonathan on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:31PM (#21768564)
My favorite is when I correctly type the next letter of my intended result because I don't notice it in time to "cancel" the keystroke but Windows 10 search removes the result from the list anyway. Then I have to delete 3 or 4 letters to get it back for some reason. Ugh.
Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by allovernow on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:19PM (#21768999)
Why does windows search suck so hard? I remember from day 1 it would totally miss files on disk that I regularly used and searched for. I would type in program names and it wouldn't find them even when they were accessable from the start bar menu. But it would eagerly return useless web results. Who even decided it was a good idea to add web search to the start menu?
Re:Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: ... by carlinmack on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:51AM (#21769577)
Conversely the search in windows explorer has gotten much better on the Insider Fast/Slow track. It does what you expect and searches down the path almost as fast as Everything.

Before even in shallow paths you would type something, it would spin, you'd press enter, you'd be brought to a big empty search results page that would slowly find things.

I'm finding myself using Everything less and less.