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Submission details

-9 +12/-21 votes

Odd Start Menu Search

Submitted by falcs on July 2, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

When using the search bar in the start menu some programs don't come up. For example when searching for "phot" (no Quotes" the top entry is Windows Photo Gallery

But

search for "photo" and no programs are listed.

Similar effect with "movi" and "movie"

UPDATE: Some people have been unable to reproduce this error. I have reset my search to defults and it persists. However, turning off Natural Language Search does fix the problem.

Fix search to show program

Medium

Low

Not fixed

Discussion (10 comments)

xiphi wrote on July 2, 2008, 1:54am

Not reproducible.

douggz wrote on July 2, 2008, 4:59am

same here, can't reproduce. It must be some tweak on your system

crestind wrote on July 2, 2008, 6:11am

Either way the search sucks... If you don't spell it right nothing shows up.

bearluke wrote on July 2, 2008, 8:29am

-1

@falcs
check the search options you modified

xiphi wrote on July 2, 2008, 11:50am

"Either way the search sucks... If you don't spell it right nothing shows up."

Lemme guess, search is supposed to hold your hand while you pinch a loaf, right?

rm20010 wrote on July 3, 2008, 4:35am

This is a problem if natural language searching is turned on. Turn it off and "Windows Photo Gallery" will show up if you type 'photo'.

zooba wrote on July 6, 2008, 9:56am

Turn it off and you lose natural language searching. When searching in the start menu, start menu items should take precedence. Having these items not match "photo" and "movie" is clearly a fault.

+1

falcs wrote on August 2, 2008, 9:44am

Changed problem description.

crestind wrote on August 30, 2008, 3:52am

@xiphi
Shouldn't the search be smart enough to realize if you mistyped "updates" for example and typed "pdates" instead, it should bring stuff up with at least "pdates" instead of bringing up no results?
Next time you mispell something, remind Google to turn off the alternative results suggestions, idiot, and you can decide whether search could be better or not.

aakash wrote on August 31, 2008, 12:34am

I have experienced this problem with natural language search.
+1

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