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

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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