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Search is horrible - contextual search is really bare minimum #1923

Open jgwinner opened 5 years ago

jgwinner commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is nearly impossible to find updated documentation on any Windows Server feature. For example, I'm doing a Domain rename. The documentation I find with Google (as Bing is hopelessly irrelevant) was to Server 2008. You would think I could search for "Domain rename" but the links returned are so far off, it's laughable.

Sorry, I'm a little frustrated. All the above is accurate, but a bit blunt.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to be able to search the current topic and below. For example, if I drill into 

Docs>Windows Server>Identity and Access>Active Directory Domain Services

I should be able to search for "domain rename" and NOT get Azure renaming, and other completely irrelevant results.

You have a LOT of content. Searching for 'some' of the words, as search clearly does, becomes nearly useless. Further, IT professionals are usually fairly good at search terms, so even if you think the average consumer has very little ability to search for what they actually want, leading to searching for what YOU think they want, IT pros usually are more discerning. Making a loose search helps no one.

Describe alternatives you've considered Google. Other search engines are better at your documentation than you are. Pretty crazy!

If I search for site:docs.microsoft.com "domain rename" on google, the first result is for Rendom.

Much more accurate than your site.

Additional context I used to like Bing. It's becoming unusable. I switched back to google today. Sigh.

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echeadle commented 4 years ago

jgwinner is correct. I tried to find information on DNS logging, found information on google; got the message that Microsoft no longer supported the version google found. So I log in and try to use the Search function in the new MS documentations. It is horrible and found nothing about which I searched for and gave me lots of information that wasted my time. If you can't search your own content, please allow google to do so.