Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by CathedralBorrow on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:16AM (#22275042)

My favorite part of Windows 10 search is how when I enter "bittorrent" it has absolutely no idea what I mean. The program is called qbittorrent.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by Xelbair on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:53AM (#22275291)

When looking for QGis i write:

Q -> nothing

Qg/Qg -> Qgis

QGi -> nothing

Qgis -> websearch

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by emn13 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:35AM (#22276583)

Yeah; that's pretty standard, alas :-(

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by Santosh83 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:34AM (#22275087)

Weird. I too have qBittorent installed and the Start menu search finds it as first option when I type 'bitt' ('bit' gives 64-bit Python launcher)... not too shabby.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by thegeekpirate on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:52AM (#22275133)

"bitt" shows me zero results, but "bitto" (all the way to "bittorrent") works. It's beyond b0rked!

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by brianpgordon on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:11AM (#22275187)

Same. And "torrent" returns no results at all. :/

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by Semaphor on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:08AM (#22275352)

Funny. "bitt" -> nothing. "bitto" -> works. "bitt" -> now works as well.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by iad on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:35AM (#22275426)

I have qBittorrent installed. For me searching "bitt" displays only "Battle.net", which is not even a valid match. hilarious.

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by thegeekpirate on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:38AM (#22275436)

Good catch, so if you type "bitto" then hit backspace to "bitt", it works, but hit backspace again ("bit") and it'll disappear (it even shows me "Notepad", because why not)!

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by e12e on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:04AM (#22276051)

At this point in this thread, I'm starting to hope someone reverse engineer windows search, and do a write-up of how the indexing, stemming and search actually works...

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by jeen02 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @08:40AM (#22275645)

bi -> Random file

bit -> Bitlocker

bitt -> qBittorrent (yay!)

bitto to bittorent -> web search

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by tuananh on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:31AM (#22275242)

weird. works for me: https://i.imgur.com/9kBh2uB.png

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by dtech on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:08AM (#22275764)

Different for different users then: https://imgur.com/a/548crWn

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Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure by CathedralBorrow on Saturday February 08, 2020 @08:17AM (#22275563)

Yeah I assume this is some indexing snafu. Or who knows. I enjoy this behavior more than it annoys me nowadays :)

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