How come apple is so much better than Google in search?

Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by starshadowx2 on Friday July 03, 2015 @06:29PM (#9828273)

Strange, when I use the search bar I get contacts or app results first. I really don't have the same experience at all like you.

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by breiner on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:04PM (#9828386)

See my reply to @dragonwriter...BTW, do you ever use this search bar for device search?

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by starshadowx2 on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:15PM (#9828418)

Yeah, mine looks nothing like that. Using 5.1.1 on a Nexus 6.

http://i.imgur.com/2BahpeT.png

I always get Search, Apps and Contacts right away like @dragonwriter.

Honestly no, I don't usually, but that's because I barely have to. I know where all my stuff is and who my contacts are. I use it primarily for Google Search.

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by breiner on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:37PM (#9828487)

It does! Don't you have any other contacts in "b" ?

The fact you're not using it is the ultimate proof, on iPhone it was super useful. And no way you "know where everything is" I bet you swipe for 30 seconds every time you want to open an app that's not on your home screen...

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by mcintyre1994 on Saturday July 04, 2015 @04:41AM (#9829657)

I just double tap home and can search my apps like Alfred on OSX, I think that's a Nova launcher thing. There's literally no point arguing Android doesn't do something you want because you're almost certainly wrong. That said, I don't tend to use the device search a lot except for files etc - I go app first when contacting people usually.

I'm not sure why it's not working for you but other than being a bit slow to start up (they really should load the keyboard before recent searches) I don't think I've ever had an issue finding what I was looking for.

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by breiner on Saturday July 04, 2015 @02:33PM (#9831115)

That's exactly my point, of course it's working for me, I've never had an issue finding what I was looking for either, it's just super slow. The keyboard does not open (like you mentioned), recent web searches and websites appear above my own content. Just makes everything so slow, so I eventually swipe away at my app drawer or my contacts' app to find stuff, which is so 2001...

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by starshadowx2 on Saturday July 04, 2015 @05:43PM (#9831704)

I'm guessing you probably have some settings set wrong somewhere if you say you're using 5.1 because your screenshots look completely different from what me, @dragonwriter, and @jacalata have and describe.

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by breiner on Sunday July 05, 2015 @10:09AM (#9833600)

I'm afraid it's not a setting, I checked, I just have more web search results that are similar to my search term. If you'd use the search feature more you'd see. Anyways, I built an app that fixes that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextstages...

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by starshadowx2 on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:52PM (#9828528)

Not any other contacts I talk to regularly. If I do go into the search device they come up, but I know my contacts and I'll see them in Phone or Message right away anyways.

And no, it does not take me 30 seconds to search for apps. I only have 3 pages of apps, so it takes at most 4 taps. Most of the apps I use regularly are on one of my two main pages though, so I barely even need that many.

Maybe it's saying something that you need 30 seconds to find apps on your phone.

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Re:How come apple is so much better than Google in search? by breiner on Friday July 03, 2015 @11:42PM (#9829078)

Most people do... the average number of apps per user is close to 100

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