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I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere, not just Spotlight. I have that same issue on Firefox, and with Windows Search, for example.

And it makes no sense whatsoever. If "foo" matches "foobar", so should "foob". I honestly don't know how the hell can they still f up such a simple piece of technology in 2025.



> I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere

https://www.voidtools.com/en-uk/support/everything/


Windows 7 start menu search was always reliable and had predictable behavior from my experience. It can be done, just that modern software engineers' skills and career incentives no longer permit it.




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