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Conversely, why is Windows search so miserably slow?
by epanchin 6y ago
Conversely, why is Windows search so miserably slow?
- epanchin 6y agoOutlook search is even worse, I doubt I would employ anyone with Outlook Search team on their cv.
- jeffbee 6y agoGoogle search can be fast because thousands of computers complete your request at once, whereas the index of junk on your Windows box only has the one little computer to serve it. Same reason why operations in Gmail are so much faster than a local client like macOS Mail: the instantaneous compute power brought to bear on your request while it is running is thousands of times larger than one computer.
- scarmig 6y agoI would guess that aggressive caching and indexing are at least as important as having thousands of computers complete the request at once (and I'd be surprised if the number of computers on the request path is nearly that high--if nothing else, thousands of computers mean you're almost guaranteed to hit p999 latency every time).
- jeffbee 6y ago> guaranteed to hit p999 latency That's why people invented the backup request.
- Miraste 6y agoWhile that's true, Windows 10 search is visibly worse than even Windows 7 search, and much worse than MacOS search. And their fuzzy matching algo for the start menu is deranged.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoJust use “voidtools everything”. It allows you to search all files, even with regex patterns, and it returns realtime results. If you want to search on file contents, use “agent ransack.