Submission details
Odd Start Menu Search
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
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Not fixed
Discussion (10 comments)
same here, can't reproduce. It must be some tweak on your system
Either way the search sucks... If you don't spell it right nothing shows up.
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@falcs
check the search options you modified
"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?
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'.
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.
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Changed problem description.
@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.
I have experienced this problem with natural language search.
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xiphi wrote on July 2, 2008, 1:54am
Not reproducible.