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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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