Comments on: Search don’t Sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching

By: sighmon

sighmon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:25:30 +0000

That's true for text based emails, but if you're searching images or videos a decent naming convention / sorting method helps a lot.

Face recognition in photos + videos is getting better, but its not quite there for me yet.

By: rosshill

rosshill — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:18:30 +0000

Yeah naming is certainly a big deal, particularly with the subject lines -
but I haven't had much trouble finding things in gmail. They've figured it
out somehow :)

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By: sighmon

sighmon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:09:59 +0000

Partly agree with you Ross, but to get really good + quick search results, search engines rely on us categorising our data well through naming and lists. So if we forget how to sort and just search, then won't the future of good search results suffer?

When new data arrives, I sort it.
When I need that data, I search.

By: sighmon

sighmon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:25:30 +0000

That's true for text based emails, but if you're searching images or videos a decent naming convention / sorting method helps a lot.

Face recognition in photos + videos is getting better, but its not quite there for me yet.

By: rosshill

rosshill — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:18:30 +0000

Yeah naming is certainly a big deal, particularly with the subject lines -
but I haven't had much trouble finding things in gmail. They've figured it
out somehow :)

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By: sighmon

sighmon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:09:59 +0000

When new data arrives, I sort it.
When I need that data, I search.

By: Grayda

Grayda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:43:50 +0000

Yeah I'm a Windows user. I used OS X for a number of months and enjoyed searching, but a lot of the apps I used appeared to only search the basics and using combinations of words failed. More natural searches would have worked better for me.

By: rosshill

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:33:36 +0000

Are you a windows man? I find quite a lot of the mac apps integrate
Spotlight search, which is pretty awesome, and if they don't integrate it
directly it's still there in the file view widgets.

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By: Grayda

Grayda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:31:38 +0000

I feel desktop search still has a long way to come but email search is rather nice. And “RSS this” or “Save this search” features work great. It's just a shame that very few applications support quick search or limit what you can search for to titles or mundane tags. If the application accepts it, you should be able to search for it. Facebook could learn from this, especially when you're searching for a specific comment or status update. But no application searches. They piss me off too much already!

By: rosshill

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:30:56 +0000

That's interesting.. I wonder what you're missing out on? In Wave I can see
that we'll definitely need some finely tuned searches to keep on top of the
masses of realtime content, perhaps in email it's not such a big deal but it
would be cool to see how some power-label-users are doing it at the moment.
Mine are pretty limited - I filter mailing lists into labels and have a few
'folders' and that's it.

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