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It’s not mind boggling at all. It’s controlled by one entity that is not optimizing for good search, but rather its own financial gain.
by jncfhnb 1y ago
It’s not mind boggling at all. It’s controlled by one entity that is not optimizing for good search, but rather its own financial gain.
- nemomarx 1y agoWhat's the entity in question for KDE search?
- dizhn 1y agoThe search is pulling from a bunch of sources in a particular order and returning results as it finds them probably. I wouldn't expect it to be anything sinister.
- zeta0134 1y agoIndeed, it's called Plasma Search, available in system settings. Providers can be enabled, disabled, and configured at will. I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to code your own and get it hooked up in there, if you were so inclined. Personally I just unchecked everything except "Applications" and I use it like a quick launcher. Works great for my purposes.
- dizhn 1y agoI use it exactly like that too. It's too jarring to get anything else in the results for me and while I can't imagine why anyone would include any other source, to each their own.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoKDE search doesn't ignore your search terms like many search engines. But it also doesn't let you choose which version of emacs is the first result for "emacs" so it has a separate set of problems.
- const_cast 1y agoKDE search is super good, if you're referring to krunner. It searches everything, bookmarks, open tabs, filenames, paths, and even file contents. And it's really fast. You have to turn the file indexer on or install it if you don't have it. Try `baloo status` or `baloo6 status`. Poke around in setting too so you can index what you need and not temp files.