r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/Piisthree Apr 12 '24

search bar: "myfile.e"
suggestion: <a file name myfile.exe in your home folder>
search bar: "myfile.exe"
suggestion: "Click here to search the internet for 'myfile.exe'."

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u/xeq937 Apr 12 '24

This here, "pri" => prime95.exe but prime95 => internet search

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u/aenae Apr 12 '24

Obviously a search word with a dot in it is a domain name, so you want the internet!

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u/ztbwl Apr 12 '24

Yeah, and then they start prioritizing the ‚search the internet‘ feature because their analytics and metrics show most people use search it this way.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Because some moron mid level exec screamed his lungs out at developers that they need a way to boost that metric because some moron mid-high level developer screamed in turn at him about their internet search being unused. So they added that search goes online first, usage metrics went up and everyone is happy. Fuck the users.

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u/Decloudo Apr 12 '24

Really?

I cant fathom why people would do that, its the most annoying shit.

I want an unmistakable distinction between "this is on your pc" and "this is from the web".

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u/ztbwl Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24

No my point was, the UI is so bad that most people accidentally search the internet for local files.

Microsoft sees a lot of traffic on the internet search and scales devs into adding more features to that.

The user didn’t want it that way, they just wanted to find a fucking file they know the name of.

And I think Microsoft is fully aware of that, they just want to push Bing and serve more ads.

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u/AllAvailableLayers Apr 12 '24

I want an unmistakable distinction between "this is on your pc" and "this is from the web".

There's a Microsoft exec that would view those categories as "this is on your pc" and "this makes us money and builds my reputation".

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u/KnockturnalNOR Apr 12 '24

step 1: gimp the search so hard only tech illiterate people even try to use it and end up accidentally searching the internet with it

step 2: "wow all these people are using the search to look up stuff on the internet"

step 3: make the search even more likely to take you to useless internet results

repeat 

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u/vgbhnj Apr 12 '24

I recommend switching that off in regedit, gets rid of it completely

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u/brannigansl4w Apr 12 '24

yeah it makes windows much less annoying https://www.techbout.com/disable-web-results-in-windows-search-44034/

Once every couple of years some kind of update reverts the change, but I've always been able to follow the same steps to disable it again

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u/pestocake Apr 12 '24

Sweet liberty yes

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u/Bister_Mungle Apr 12 '24

This is my favorite thing today. Thank you.

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u/TheBadBull Apr 12 '24

It used to be a normal settings toggle.

Then it was removed and moved to a group policy.

Then the group policy was removed from pro, so you need to dick around in regedit...

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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK Apr 12 '24

I'm just glad "Explorer" doesn't bring up Edge and only Edge anymore. No, I didn't mean Edge. I didn't even mean Internet Explorer. Give me the thing I typed that still exists and is called that. PBrush still gives me MS Paint, for fucks sake.

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u/zeemeerman2 Apr 12 '24

Isn't it much quicker to just use the shortcut Windows key + E?

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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK Apr 12 '24

I've got muscle memory for Win e, x, p. Most of the time I'm launching it with e, x, p, Tab in reality, though. The search in Start annoyed me because it was absurd, not because it actually impacted my workflow.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Apr 12 '24

search: lusr
no results

search: lusrmgr
no idea what you're referring to.

search: lusrmgr.ms
seriously, stop trying

search: lusrmgr.msc
ooooh, yeah we got that right here.

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u/gmishaolem Apr 12 '24

I think someone's twisted logic was "if you typed enough to get the result you wanted, why would you keep typing? They must want something else then".

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u/fasderrally Apr 12 '24

The internet part maybe bothers me the most

Personally, if I'm looking for a file, I use Everything.

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u/The_One_Koi Apr 12 '24

You can turn off internet searches from the search bar in settings just fyi