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Search used to be intertwined with Cortana, making it bloated and slow in the initial versions of Windows 10. Also, Search collected a lot of data about what people do on their Windows 10 PCs. As of the May 2020 update, Search has detached itself from Cortana and received many improvements. But as always with Microsoft, people had to hate it first before Microsoft listened and made it better.

You can use Search to start apps using only the keyboard (geeks love that). You also get fast access to Windows 10 settings, your documents, photos, and emails, and even websites. As you would expect, Windows 10 Search is integrated with Bing, not Google, and your web searches are used to make Bing better. As shown in Figure 2-12, Search is used also to provide you with news (getting the latest headlines about coronavirus was not something I loved) and ads (promoting the new Chrome-based version of Microsoft Edge and the like).

FIGURE 2-12: Search helps you find what you are looking for, but also displays ads and the latest news.

Leaving all these minor annoyances aside, I do like the new Search a lot. The indexing of files works better than ever, it eats up fewer system resources, and search results are returned faster than ever. And Search is well integrated with OneDrive, SharePoint, and Outlook, so finding your stuff in the cloud is easy, as long as you use a Microsoft, Work, or School account with Windows 10. Two other cool feats are that you can tell Windows 10 what folders to exclude from Search so that it doesn’t bother indexing them, and have it respect your power mode settings when using Windows 10 on a laptop or tablet. Goodbye Windows 10 Search draining my battery faster than it should!