Search results in Windows 8 adapted to what is done at all times

One of the novelties of Windows 8 is the sidebar that is activated on the right side of the screen every time the mouse approaches the upper or lower corners of that same side. In this bar are the Search, Share, Home, Devices and Settings functionalities, through which the user can interact and obtain information or execute other system activities.

In today's post, we are going to focus on the functionality of Search and its special ability to offer results based on what you the user is doing at all times.In Windows 8 Search is no longer boring and static, but now the user can search for information dynamically and get results adapted to the activity they are doing.

What can you search for in Windows 8?

Through the Search option present in the right sidebar in Windows 8, the user can search for files that are on your system, information on your computer's configuration and applications installed on it. Note that it is an instant search system, which means that the search results adapt to what the user is typing.

The feature that stands out the most when searching for information in Windows 8 is that the search engine adapts to what the user is doing at all times. This means that on the Start screen the Search option will show results for files, settings and apps, but in the Windows Store, the Search option results will be related to the applications hosted there.

In this way, if you want to find out if an application is available in the Windows Store, you just have to access the store and then activate the right sidebar and type the name of the application in the search box. Search option text. If there are any apps with that name or related in the Store, they will be displayed in the search results.

Search to manage the system

Another advantage of the Search option in Windows 8 is that it helps the user to manage and use the system, all of this quite a natural way. For example, a user who is not an expert and wants to configure a second screen on her computer, from the start menu can type in the text box of the Search function the following: “second screen.”

As you write the two previous search terms, the system offers increasingly refined results that finally make available the information you want to know, in this case, in the section Settings: “Project on a second screen”.

Since the search results are expressed in a very natural way, the user has at his disposal a very simple way to interact with the system configuration. In this way, the classic menu systems of previous versions of Windows and other operating systems, more complex and that required the user a certain level of knowledge to locate where each option was located, are left behind.

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