| ▲ | firefax 8 days ago | |
>It is mind-boggling, how in this day and age search functions can still be soooo bad in so many places on the web and inside applications Not really, if you understand how modern search algorithms work. Pagerank[1] relies on link analysis -- you see who links to whom, and combine that with information on the traffic each site gets to suss out which sites are more likely to be sought out. None of that data is available when you're searching through your local hard drive -- you have to use basic search operators like AND, OR, or use negation (Eg: "Star Wars -film" to find information on the space laser thing) Unfortunately, we don't train folks on how to search anymore, so when "the algorithm" doesn't produce what they are looking for, folks have no ability to conduct their own search. | ||