Yeah sorry. I should have said “ready-to-eat food that you actually want to eat”. As in hot food regularly being cooked and refrigerated food that is brought in fresh multiple times a day.

This is a great point, but it probably doesn’t do the job as well as more modern alternatives.

1. Easy to lose, possible data leak concerns.
2. Easy to retain data that should have been deleted.
3. Easy to lose data if a disk gets lost or damaged.
4. Likely wastes time when trying to track down the disk you need to getting someone to transfer it.
5. Lack of access logs and auditing capabilities.
6. Easy way for viruses to spread.

Modern IT managed file servers solve a lot of real problems when well-managed.

Convenience stores in Japan are much more than the cigarettes and lottery tickets of North America. They have lots of ready-to-eat food, snacks, drinks as well as some banking services, bill payments, faxing and more.

There are a few reasons. Some of them are in the users’ interest. Lots of people phrase their search like a question. “How do I turn off the wifi on my blue windows 11 laptop?”

While ignoring stopwords like “the” and “a” has been common for a while there is lots of info here that the user probably doesn’t actually care about. “my” is probably not helping the search, “how” may not either. Also in this case “blue” is almost certainly irrelevant. So by allowing near matches search engines can get the most helpful articles even if they don’t contain all of the words.

Secondly search engines often allow stemming and synonym matching. This isn’t really ignoring words but can give the appearance of doing so. For example maybe “windows” gets stemmed to “window” and “laptop” is allowed to match with “notebook”. You may get an article that is talking about a window of opportunity and writing in notebooks and it seems like these words have been ignored. This is generally helpful as often the best result won’t have used the exact same words that you did in the query.

Of course then there are the more negative reasons.

1. Someone decided that you can’t buy anything if your product search returns no results. So they decided that they will show the “closest matches” even if nothing is anywhere close. This is infuriating and I have stopped using many sites because of it.
2. If you need to make more searches or view more pages you also see more ads.

I don’t think that is quite accurate.

We discovered many more Pluto-or-larger sized things that were closer to the sun than Pluto. It became increasingly obvious that there was nothing special about Pluto and we either needed to add hundreds of planets or “demote” Pluto.

They added telemetry. 100% of responses had internet access.