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For me it's calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 99 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Searching the filesystem. There's no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago

Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they've ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 19 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

It does what now? Why would it do that?

[–] Damarus@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

It's just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn't be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

it does what now

It's been doing it since Windows 8.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago

It helps use Microsoft's Windows monopoly to promote Bing.

I imagine that at some point the EU antitrust people might get grouchy about that.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 19 hours ago

That's not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait... it's actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you're not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.

At least we have Everything for local search.

[–] midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 1 points 18 hours ago