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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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That's like them deliberately closing a strait (for profit), and then reopening it to much glory to their very achievement.
And they didn't even debloat telemetry, they just turned off the ads.
Also what local search these days isn't close to instant (which I would say it's faster than "crazy fast")?
Are there programs for Windows/Mac or Linux that make search of everything quick and instant? I can't think of any that don't involve pre-indexing or massively fail to find what you are looking for (or are slow).
Oh, ... I got caught not reading the article, but I assume that goes for Microsoft as well - they do use indexing, right? Have since ever (but in those days you had to manually enable indexing, bcs slow HDDs at the time really bottlenecked)?
By "instant" I meant for indexed content (including installed things, etc). Idk, I don't search much locally, but if I need txt file from Documents that how I get it.
Doesn't Spotlight on Macs work the same-ish or did they enshitify that too?
Edit: The article only says that they turned off Bing results (and added a toggle for the store)? That's just how Windows users using O&O experienced search this whole time, right?
I don't immediately see how this is different to eg KDE search functionality (also with added cools that I can do it in desktop, not having to click the search/start before).