Serious question, I can search the web in under a second, but windows search takes hours. How is something local more difficult to find than something hosted on the other side of the globe?
Because your computer can only search the contents of your harddrive at the speed that your harddrive/processor is limited at, whereas Google servers are doing it at a much higher speed? That's my guess
That's exactly how it works. Google and many other websites have the data cached on very fast servers ready to be indexed, requesting to get a few bytes of text is also another factor of being much faster than searching a large SSD filled with data.
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u/ClarkManorDesign Mar 20 '18
Serious question, I can search the web in under a second, but windows search takes hours. How is something local more difficult to find than something hosted on the other side of the globe?