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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: jpettit on 25 August 2006, 19:43

Title: Outlook
Post by: jpettit on 25 August 2006, 19:43

Why does google search faster and better, on the internet, than Outlook does for your own e-mails?
 
The Outlook search feature is the most poorly designed thing I've ever seen.

Title: Re: Outlook
Post by: worker201 on 25 August 2006, 21:35

Funny, Outlook doesn't seem to run on my Linux machine.  And I noticed that it only runs on a Windows machine when you install it.

Title: Re: Outlook
Post by: RaZoR1394 on 25 August 2006, 21:38

What version of Outlook are we talking about?

Title: Re: Outlook
Post by: hm_murdock on 26 August 2006, 01:48

I don't have Outlook. I have Entourage.

Title: Re: Outlook
Post by: Pathos on 26 August 2006, 09:29

Quote from: jpettit

Why does google search faster and better, on the internet, than Outlook does for your own e-mails?

If you really want to know its because the results it gives are basically stored presearched, it only to find the top 10 to display using its billion dollar computing systems (the results are probably stored in a way to accelerate this too). When you do a search on google it basically just looks up the keywords in a table. And the most popular searchs are cached as well.

Outlook just looks at your emails in turn which I believe are stored in a compressed format which doesn't help. It could implement a search database to give instant searching but this is too much trouble than its worth.

Title: Re: Outlook
Post by: pofnlice on 26 August 2006, 09:48

Thunderbird...I can't seem to find a linux version of Outlook...and if I did, I would chuckle to myself, and go onto searching shemale toon horse porn or something...