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It's been 14 years since I reported you can't search for "wedding" in Bugzilla, have they ever fixed it, they hadn't last time I checked:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844

(The bug is they do 'clever matching', so wedding matches weds, and too many emails you weds for wednesday, you can't say 'just show the word I ask you for')

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Yeah, the search in Thunderbird never worked for me, so I use the quick filter. Apparently it does not use the index (and is slower), but it works.

I just checked (the desktop version) and right clicking and using "search messages" also does not use the global index and does not do stemming. It is sieve, which has issues (no way to search based on DMARC authenticated exact email address, which is something basic that email search should really provide) but does cover a lot of search. You can save common searches as folders, though frustratingly "search messages" does not appear on those saved searches; it would be quite convenient if it did and started a search pre-filling the saved settings. I had actually forgotten that the global search exists so I turned it off (at the bottom of general settings).

If you sort by relevance it seems to prioritise the word you asked for? I searched "wedding" and the first few hundred results were all emails about actual weddings. It was only when I sorted by date I saw the "Wed" results.

That thread is both hilarious and sad. Incredible that nobody has forked the project simply to implement a working search.

Betterbird exists actually and they fix bugs like that, which Mozilla just refuses to address for whatever reason

https://www.betterbird.eu/

Well, they are funded by Google after all -- infamous for replacing or ignoring search terms entirely.

Many such cases. Duckduckgo is practically unusable because it just decides for itself which of my search terms it actually searches for. I have to explicitly quote every word to get it to function like a search engine.

Meanwhile, Netflix search (on Apple TV at least), is not only practically unusable, but literally so. Doesn't matter what you input, it just returns a random selection of films. I saw Kill Bill the other day, and wondered if there were any other Tarantino films on there. "Tarantino" returned things like Indiana Jones and other completely nonsensical results.

Am I the only one around here who knows SQL?

Netflix used to have codes you can search that were by category. I think it might work work on browser. Was a much better way to discover stuff (there's way more categories than you would expect)

Searching the same codes on an Apple TV is a very weird experience. It seems to sort of start to recognise what you're doing and then also give you a random assortment of the same crap it thinks your account wants to see.

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