[Gmail-Users] Re: Searching for emails

Just tried this out by searching for [Gmail-User] rather then
[Gmail-Users] and was able to confirm this, and while this is a bit
odd perhaps it's for the better that it's more precise when searching
mail since with googles philosiphy people will be storing many many
emails and if the email search was looser it could potentially turn up
hundreds of false positives which could make searching just as
efficient as using the All Mail option, and all it takes is adding a s

On 12/15/05, Nick Chirchirillo <nickman55@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that the search function of Gmail is not as accurate
> as Google's? I would have thought that the minds of Google would have used
> the same algorithm for Gmail that they use for the Google search engine, but
> Gmail's is horrible.
>
> For example, I had send an email to my college asking when the bills for
> this year were going o be sent out. I had forgotten what the res ponce was,
> so I did a Gmail search for the email I sent and it's reply. I wasn't sure
> whether I said "bills" or "bill", so I just used "bill" as my search query,
> thinking that had I typed "bills" in the email, it would still come up.
> However, when the search was completed, Gmail came up with no results. I
> then searched again with "bills" as the query and then Gmail returned the
> email I was looking for.
>
> I know that the Google search engine is able to pick apart words, but why
> can't Gmail's?
>
> --
> -Nick