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I have around 45,000 messages in my Gmail inbox. My experience searching it has felt sluggish for a long time. But really the fatal flaw is that search terms ha

I have around 45,000 messages in my Gmail inbox. My experience searching it has felt sluggish for a long time. But really the fatal flaw is that search terms have to be damn near exact. Gmail is a joke compared to Google when it comes to fuzzy searches. I often find myself having to do several searches to get what I want, compounding the issue of search latency. It's so bad I sometimes give up entirely.

greattypo 16y ago
I'm at 264,500. And yes, it's about as terrible as you'd imagine.
- psykotic 16y ago
  Ouch. If you're anything like me, around 90% of your traffic comes from mailing lists. Greplin could win big by inferring what mailing lists you are on (along with beginning and ending subscription dates) in order to factor out all relevant storage and indexing.
  - klochner 16y ago
    Do you need to store mailing list email? Usually there's a public archive.
    - mbreese 16y ago
      Sometimes it's just easier to search for things in Gmail. But since it is just a mailing list, it's pretty easy to label it and kill it en masse if you need to. At least, that's what I do.