Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present?

biglyburrito · 2025-05-05T12:54:59 1746449699

No. I stopped using Gmail for this & other reasons, and switched to something that actually works.

troyvit · 2025-05-05T13:51:10 1746453070

What did you switch to? Because I switched to Thunderbird and now find my search is even worse than it was with Gmail.

sam_lowry_ · 2025-05-05T20:39:48 1746477588

chrisjj · 2025-05-05T12:16:50 1746447410

Gmail search erronously overlooks as words any words Gmail Compose has littered with redundant embedded tags.

chrisjj · 2025-05-05T12:29:45 1746448185

...plus overlooks the plain text MIME part entirely!

And we thought Google was supposed to be good at search...

labrador · 2025-05-05T12:35:16 1746448516

Google doesn't want you deleting their data

chrisjj · 2025-05-05T19:14:52 1746472492

So we're fortunate it finds anything? :)

sitzkrieg · 2025-05-05T19:15:56 1746472556

how many engineers and billions of $? lol