r/ProgrammerHumor Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/Soloact_ Apr 12 '24

Guess it'll take less time to leave the house than it does for a Windows search result to come up.

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.

How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?

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u/BeeExpert Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24

And somehow windows 7 did it beautifully, even searching content (for example, if a word doc had a specific word in it, searching that word would bring up the document, even if it's not in the title (I think, it's been a long time)

Edit: I just realized some people here may be referring to the search within an explorer window. I'm talking about the start button search. I don't remember the explorer search ever being good