The Tell Me search is brilliant. You can put in partial words in any order and it'll figure out the closest matches it can.

It would be brilliant if the F3 search on a list page (Items, Vendors, Customers, as well as others) could have the same magic logic behind it.

For instance:

If you have stock items as below (but pretend there are hundreds or thousands of similar examples):

Clutch bearing

Bearing, clutch

Bearing, roller, clutch

Output shaft bearing

If we do an F3 search for "bearing" it finds anything with bearing in it. Great, but might not narrow it down a lot.

If we do an F3 search for "clutch" it finds anything with clutch in it, but too broad.

"Bearing|Clutch" finds both, effectively.

Bearing Clutch only finds when bearing and clutch appear together (in my data that's zero results, even though there should be)

Yes, I can type @*bearing*&@*clutch* but that's a faff just writing it now, let alone every time one wants to search.

Filters aren't much better, as they are case sensititive and seach from the beginning of a specific field, so you still have to do the @* thing.

Some sort of fuzzy logic (as an option perhaps so as not to upset existing happy users) in the search so that two "words" are searched in any order without case sensitivity wherever they appear, so a search for "clutch bearing" would even find items with "Bearing" in the middle of the description and "Clutch" in the Item Category code.

As I'm not a programmer, it strikes me as being a relatively simple task for a company that also makes Bing, one of the biggest and best search engines in the world today, to integrate. You've already got similar algorithms (albeit with static data) for the Tell Me search.

Please! :)