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

21 chrisjj 8 5/5/2025, 12:16:50 PM emaildiscussions.com ↗

Comments (8)

biglyburrito · 9h ago

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

troyvit · 8h ago

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_ · 1h ago

mutt

chrisjj · 9h ago

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

chrisjj · 9h ago

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

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

labrador · 9h ago

Google doesn't want you deleting their data

chrisjj · 2h ago

So we're fortunate it finds anything? :)

sitzkrieg · 2h ago

how many engineers and billions of $? lol