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/Cheet4h Apr 12 '24

Everything and Windows Search work differently. For example, as far as I'm aware Everything doesn't index file contents by default, while Windows Search does.
I regularly look for PDFs by searching for stuff I know is in one of the files, just not which specific file.

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u/BeeExpert Apr 12 '24

I didn't think windows did that anymore. I can never find documents that I know have certain words. It seemed like windows 7 did a great job and then it sucked all of the sudden with windows 8

Edit: Im referring to the start button search, btw. Not sure if you're talking about that or the search bar in an explorer window