"I think this article is setting up a pretty high bar for search."
All of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ..." genre articles do.
The way to use them is not to view them as an immutable checklist that all programs must conform to or else they are forever and always nothing but total crap, but as a list of things professionals should at least have some clue about, and that you should generally make deliberate decisions about, rather than accidental ones. Are you a pizza place with ten locations in a single state? Then by all means, take US-only addresses, and hard-code the time zone on your web site, and probably just ignore search, and expect first & last names or whatever. Just do it as a deliberate tradeoff, with an understanding of what it may take to undo it later.
Are you working in an international company serving customers all around the world, with the need to provide some search functionality? Well, you probably need to be able to fulfill a lot more of the relevant lists.
All of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ..." genre articles do.
The way to use them is not to view them as an immutable checklist that all programs must conform to or else they are forever and always nothing but total crap, but as a list of things professionals should at least have some clue about, and that you should generally make deliberate decisions about, rather than accidental ones. Are you a pizza place with ten locations in a single state? Then by all means, take US-only addresses, and hard-code the time zone on your web site, and probably just ignore search, and expect first & last names or whatever. Just do it as a deliberate tradeoff, with an understanding of what it may take to undo it later.
Are you working in an international company serving customers all around the world, with the need to provide some search functionality? Well, you probably need to be able to fulfill a lot more of the relevant lists.