Tewha » search http://tewha.net Writings and links on iPhone and iPad programming Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:26:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Apple’s developer search improved http://tewha.net/2010/09/apples-developer-search-improved/ http://tewha.net/2010/09/apples-developer-search-improved/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:04:44 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=1130 Continue reading →]]> About a year ago, I complained about how bad Apple’s search engine was for developer documentation.

I’m not going to claim it’s perfect now, but the new developer website Apple pushed today improves it. The useless summaries (that always turned out to be the same boilerplate for every result) are gone, as are the duplicates in different formats. And the results are more relevant too.

Check it out here.

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Lenn Pryor:

You will have to take Vic’s disk…I am not giving mine up. ;) Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file store. I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f*cking amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.

Jim Allchin:

Yes. I know. It is hard to take. I don’t believe we will have search this fast.

The funny part for me as I read this is that they’re talking about Mac OS X 10.4 search. Mac OS X 10.4′s search worked, but it was very slow. Yet apparently, even that blew away what they had.

Still, it isn’t all bad for Microsoft: It looks like they at least realized the speed of search was important.

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