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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by vbezhenar on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:03PM (#40423259)
They should implement simple search first, so I don't need to reach grep for everything. Then they should implement pdftotext and fuzzy search. Of course everything should work instantly for small folders. That would be enough for 99% people.
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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by JohnFen on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @10:36AM (#40429038)
A million times this. Windows search is, as near as I can tell, completely worthless and I have to install other utilities to have working basic search.

I don't need or want anything fancy like semantic searching. I just want to be able to grep and find things by filename.

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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by Joe_Cool on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:14PM (#40431153)
The server version called "Windows Search Services" was rather alright. It was even integrated into the Win7 Libraries and you could search through contents server-side from Explorer.

It supported plugins and was reasonably fast. Needed a lot of RAM though and some admin to babysit it.

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