Why is Windows search still so bad in 2019?

Imo one of the reddit comments captures the situation perfectly: "You mean you dont want to see app advertisements when trying to remember where the fuck you put your resume???"

Someone inside MS turned mundane OS File Manager feature into revenue stream. High fives, promotions and bonuses all around guys!!1

file explorer search is another thing that is unbelievably bad. when you search for "filename" and then when you try to go back to the original folder you were in it searches for "filenam" then "filen" and hangs each time. that's the part where I normally just close the window and manually open the folder again.

ive been trying out pop/linux recently and really nice how the results just show up instantly as you type. if only microsoft would spend less time adding pointless 3d features and emoji support they might have time to improve these things.

I’d say that most first party local search are subpar. Setting search on both iOS and Android is bad in such ways that I can’t understand how did they make it like this. File search on windows and with spotlight is slow (spotlight at least usually finds something).

But tools like everything or Alfred show that making it fast it possible. Maybe just not a priority.

You could ask the same question about Windows Backup, I can't imagine anybody relying on it.