What do you mean "still mostly useless"? Is there anything more usable on any other OS?
I moved back to Windows a couple of years back. Spotlight is the second thing I miss most from macOS, with the first being Preview.
I moved back to Windows a couple of years back. Spotlight is the second thing I miss most from macOS, with the first being Preview.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321000)
There seems to be two kind of searching people do. Some people want a search tool that searches in documents. Some people want a search tool that searches filenames.
Everything search is exclusively the second. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've wanted to search inside documents in the last 10+ years (and for those cases, grep has worked fine, even on windows!).
For some reason, searching inside documents seems to be the default for both windows and os x search, and it's super annoying.
If you want to search documents you have created, I can imagine that you may not use the feature much. But e.g. for research papers, the downloaded copy rarely reflects the contents/authors, so it is really handy to be able to search the contents.
> For some reason, searching inside documents seems to be the default for both windows and os x search, and it's super annoying.
Weird. For me windows don't seem to search inside documents, or at least not in all documents.