I don't think there is anything wrong with it. It just matches terms literally and shows matching emails in chronological order. It doesn't do ranking and non-

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. It just matches terms literally and shows matching emails in chronological order. It doesn't do ranking and non-literal matches like web search does. I think this is the right way of doing it. Also, the gmail team has to work with a lot of restrictions because of privacy. They are not allowed to look at user's email ever. That would make it hard to do ranking. Maybe this helps: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en