Windows' start menu search famously doesn't show the best match at first for any search query, so what algorithm does it uses to rank the filenames based on the query ?<p>My latest example is :<p>Typing "St" top result is "Steam"<p>Typing "Ste" top result is "SteamVR"<p>Typing "Stea" top result is "Steam" again
URL completion in some browsers is similar.<p>My guess is that it might remember which completions you have chosen in the past<p>So for example<p>- You may have typed “St” several times in the past and chosen “Steam”<p>- You may have typed “Ste” in the past and chosen SteamVR.<p>And that combined with which is the “real” default that it would highlight would then make it a bit confusing.<p>But it can also be helpful in some ways.