system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:How Google can search the internet in a fraction of a second but Windows takes five minutes to search for a file on my computer?

How Google can search the internet in a fraction of a second but Windows takes five minutes to search for a file on my computer?
gpt
Google doesn't search the Internet.  At least not directly.  Google operates by searching their locally-stored, highly-optimized index that they slowly construct by having their bots crawl the Internet 24 hours a day.  So your search results are based on what Google has seen over the last several days/weeks/months, and not on what is currently there.

Your computer can do the same thing.  Windows can index files to make searching faster.