Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
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Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#32Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#33Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#34Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
Gmail search has really gone to the dogs, lately. The new AI inbox is surprisingly useful, though. No doubt a coincidence.
I can't for the life of me understand how to use it, especially on mobile. Everything turns into an AI conversation. WTF I just want to see the ticker chart. It makes me feel old and out of touch. But also, it's just so horrible. Truly unusable. I went with apple and yahoo - tons of ads but at least I can see the chart.
Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#35Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
is there a way to fix this? came up couple of times rather critical when I couldnt find an important mail, it just stopped showing up with the search query that I used
Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#36Exact match results followed by fuzzy match would cover most use cases, and clear toggles would cover the remaing ones. It boggles the mind why this particular wheel keeps getting reinvented in octoganal shapes.
You'd need some scoring where precise hits get better score than those only found by fuzzy search. With that it's maybe acceptable, but I personally preferred just being able to switch it easily/quickly when needed and by preference.
Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#37Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#38HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines. For example search for "Amerca" with and without quotes. Without quotes you get content for "America" but with quotes you only get the exact typo match.
Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#39Re: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
#40How hard is it to do plain search first for crying out loud.