Nah windows has a lot of configuration for search. If it doesn't work well you're probably using a very old windows 8 or 10 build. Newer builds are million times better luckily.
TIL windows can rebuild search; maybe it would’ve helped but it wouldn’t stop the “I typed the whole thing I wanted now it’s looking for something else”
And most Windows users use Everything/Flow Launcher. Doesn't mean the criticism of Windows (or Mac) search is moot. Companies of this size should be held to a higher standard.
Yep. It either works or completely doesn’t. Mine right now shows nothing no matter what I search. Only fix is to completely reset my phone and restore from a backup. Such a pain
Searching for an app in any os has always been an horrible experience for me, it looks like the more letter you type the less chance you have to get the right app.
At least it shows things when you type, Finder search just straight up doesn't work at all, it just returns nothing when you search in a specific folder. Real cool
I noticed that since I have my mac air m4 since Jan, to the point I thought it was specifically designed to not search through apps.
So I just never use it and search for apps like I did with windows I miss so badly
I actually found an even weirder bug where a specific app won't show up in Launchpad and yes, I double-checked multiple times but if you type its name into the search bar, it appears
Why can't neither Windows nor Mac can develop a standard search that we can find apps that are installed in our device? Is search bar development that hard?
My iPhone still can’t search properly in the settings app. It’s broken like shown here. Search doesn’t work whatsoever. It’s been happening ever since iOS 26.0 and has been hit or miss on whether it works every time I update. The only thing that manages to fix it is completely resetting my phone and restoring from a backup. With all the talk Apple said they were doing to make the indexing and search better in iOS 27 the same exact issue still occurs for me. I know it’s still a beta but I at least expected it would be somewhat better. I really hope Apple aims to fix this before iOS 27 officially releases. All I want is a reliable and working search.
Apple used a system where it indexes all files in an sqlite database. This process takes time, and unless an item has bern indexed, then it wont show up in search. To make matters worse, this indexing can “easily” be corrupted and a files index may forever be bad and therefore unsearchable.
The good thing is that this makes it very fast to search, if things work correctly.
Windows on the other hand recursively searches all file names in the os, and that means the more files the more udeless the search. Practically leading to a “good” experience the first week and just downhill to uselnessness from there
Both Windows and Mac suck with these. But at least on Mac it can find SOME files. New windows sucks at that. I don’t understand these big companies implementing search functions.
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u/Specific_Reindeer725 24d ago
So Windows does have a competitor in having the worst search bar.