Windows search is fundamentally and apparently irrevocably broken. It used to be dysfunctional due to pure incompetence but now that’s combined with the imperative to foist advertising on everyone all the time — which just destroys everything.
It’s not just about profit, though. It’s about power. And it’s about control. The enormous, overarching, and unstoppable project being undertaken now by the powerful is to get the information genie back in the lamp. Breaking search and making your own data difficult to find is one way this is being done. There are many others but this is an important front in that war.
There’s also this:
Yeah, both old people and young people have no goddamn idea how to use a computer. There was an intern at a prior job who did not know how to turn on a laptop, use a mouse, or type on a keyboard. All she’d ever used were smartphones and tablets. This hobbling of capabilities and shifting around of interfaces constantly is not at all accidental. The powerful hate general purpose computers and it’s been a project since the late 1980s (which the internet put a crimp in) to make them less capable and useful. We’re seeing the end results of that now.