Rant about Searching.
Jan. 17th, 2006 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupThere is a very nasty tendency that has grown up in Search APIs in recent years, and I want to rant about it.
<RANT>
When I search for something, I want to know WHERE it was found!!!
I don't want to have to use the same friking search function again next time I want to find some mis-filed item. I want to know WHERE in my 10,000 items it found the errant item so that I can either make note of its location or move it to a new spot.
Window's Help system will offer to run a program for you that you've found in the help system, but it never tells you where on your system or in your menu's that program is, or even what its called in the link.
Firefox's bookmark search function in the bookmark manager will show you all hits, but won't tell you where they are in the bookmark hierarchy. I just had to load my bookmarks as an html file and do a manual search for an item so that I could re-file it correctly.
I had a third example when I started this rant, but it fried in the anger radiating from my skull. SEARCHING IS NOT A COMPLEX CONCEPT! Get it right guys! Sheesh!
</RANT>
<RANT>
When I search for something, I want to know WHERE it was found!!!
I don't want to have to use the same friking search function again next time I want to find some mis-filed item. I want to know WHERE in my 10,000 items it found the errant item so that I can either make note of its location or move it to a new spot.
Window's Help system will offer to run a program for you that you've found in the help system, but it never tells you where on your system or in your menu's that program is, or even what its called in the link.
Firefox's bookmark search function in the bookmark manager will show you all hits, but won't tell you where they are in the bookmark hierarchy. I just had to load my bookmarks as an html file and do a manual search for an item so that I could re-file it correctly.
I had a third example when I started this rant, but it fried in the anger radiating from my skull. SEARCHING IS NOT A COMPLEX CONCEPT! Get it right guys! Sheesh!
</RANT>
