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Why is Bing required to index local files?

• aphextim 7y ago
  I'm not sure why, but an article I found explained some stuff regarding search in Win 10. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10-search-box-gone-black-does-search-even-work.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3519708/has-your-win10... >What really sticks out for me with some of these newer Search versions, is that they use a ton of memory. Click on the Search box and it immediately consumes 120+ MB of memory on my machine. >I did a little digging around I think I figured out why … the entire search box is now a web application built with JavaScript & React. This of course means that some kind of web rendering engine is required … it’s probably Edge. >There is a lot of evidence in the JavaScript source to suggest that it was built by the Bing team. If I had to guess, I’d say that what happened here was that the desktop search experience was moved from the Windows team to the Bing web team, and they just don’t have the skills to build desktop programs with efficient C++. >And, it looks like there is a mechanism to update the JavaScript code from a remote server, without actually upgrading the Search application itself. >Maybe this also explains why the bugs with the new Windows Explorer search bar haven’t been acknowledged by the Windows team … could very well be that the Windows team doesn’t even own that code anymore! All the above is not confirmed just one person's idea.
• eknkc 7y ago
  I don't think it is. I mean, search works just fine on an offline machine (normally). Bing is used for some online results on the same panel. However now it does not show local files even if I disable the internet connection. I guess they pushed an update that screwed up the search results screen.