21 March 2012

When programmers try too hard

I use Adobe Acrobat X a lot at work. Recently I wanted to search through a long document for a page that says "Day 2" (which divides the book into materials for Day 1 ... and materials for Day 2 of a training session).

I used the built-in search for the string "day 2" and it matched today.



This is the difference between Google and Adobe. Google's semantic interpretation of search strings more often than not finds useful matches. Adobe, with the best of intentions, confused and irritated me. This match is obviously stupid, but I doubt Adobe will fix their engine.

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