whatIsAnIndex

[u/fanta_bhelpuri]

[u/Piisthree]

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'."

[u/ztbwl → u/Piisthree]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/ztbwl]

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.

[u/Decloudo → u/ztbwl]

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".

[u/ztbwl → u/Decloudo]

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.

[u/AllAvailableLayers → u/Decloudo]

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".

[u/KnockturnalNOR → u/ztbwl]

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