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I don't think this is a localisation issue. Gmail's search box semantics are unusably bad no matter what language you use. If I click "Inbox", Gmail takes me t

I don't think this is a localisation issue. Gmail's search box semantics are unusably bad no matter what language you use. If I click "Inbox", Gmail takes me to my "primary inbox" where my non-spam emails land. As far as I'm concerned, that's my inbox. It takes another click to "promotions" or "social" to see all the unwanted advertising semi-spam mail that I probably signed up for but don't want to read. Google is really good at this bit. But to search for unread emails in this inbox, you can't do "in:inbox" because that brings back all the mails from "social" and "promotions", and the interface for search results doesn't have the same 3 tabs, so the relevant emails are buried a hundred pages down. "in:primary" doesn't work either. The magic incantation is "category:primary is:unread", but at various points in the past you've needed instead to use "is" or "in" or "label" instead. Google supports you searching for messages by content. Type the words or the sender's name and you'll find the email. Advanced search is an afterthought or downright discouraged, in the same way it's been made less powerful on Web searches than it was in 2001.

tankenmate 6y ago
Also, "in:" in a misnomer as emails aren't "in" a mailbox, GMail uses tags / labels. So technically you can label an email as both sent and inbox (include yourself in the recipient list). This label rather than mailbox approach is clearly visible if you ever use the IMAP interface to GMail; it breaks assumptions / guidelines / rules in the IMAP protocol. On top of that GMail sometimes treats some special labels as exclusive to other special labels (i.e. some of the built in always available labels). i.e. something can't have the inbox and trash labels at the same time.
- masukomi 6y ago
  also "in" is english.
- account42 6y ago
  > Also, "in:" in a misnomer as emails aren't "in" a mailbox, GMail uses tags / labels. So technically you can label an email as both sent and inbox (include yourself in the recipient list). in is fine, just interpret tags as sets of emails.
Craighead 6y ago
1. there is a - which is the not command 2. there are multiple inbox types that can default categorize to stay away from the different top tabs of promotion and social, all of which take one click to change
acranox 6y ago
The content matching is a little fuzzy, IIRC. I've searched for an exact string, which matched nothing, but google returned a list of partial matches. I didn't realize they were partial matches, and wasted a few minutes trying to find what I was looking for in those messages, only to realize, it wasn't there. And I couldn't find a way to get gmail to just show that nothing matched what I was looking for.
- bobbob1921 6y ago
  I’ve come across this many times- mainly during ediscovery exports for IT clients. Best info I could find is that gmail does NOT support exact phrase matching , at all. (ie in the search “cat dog” , the quotes are ignored , so “my cat my dog is green” is returned as a match , unfortunately) This very much limits ediscovery flexibility and is unbelievable for a company that specializes in search

tankenmate 6y ago

Also, "in:" in a misnomer as emails aren't "in" a mailbox, GMail uses tags / labels. So technically you can label an email as both sent and inbox (include yourself in the recipient list). This label rather than mailbox approach is clearly visible if you ever use the IMAP interface to GMail; it breaks assumptions / guidelines / rules in the IMAP protocol. On top of that GMail sometimes treats some special labels as exclusive to other special labels (i.e. some of the built in always available labels). i.e. something can't have the inbox and trash labels at the same time.

masukomi 6y ago
also "in" is english.
account42 6y ago
> Also, "in:" in a misnomer as emails aren't "in" a mailbox, GMail uses tags / labels. So technically you can label an email as both sent and inbox (include yourself in the recipient list). in is fine, just interpret tags as sets of emails.

Craighead 6y ago

1. there is a - which is the not command 2. there are multiple inbox types that can default categorize to stay away from the different top tabs of promotion and social, all of which take one click to change

acranox 6y ago

The content matching is a little fuzzy, IIRC. I've searched for an exact string, which matched nothing, but google returned a list of partial matches. I didn't realize they were partial matches, and wasted a few minutes trying to find what I was looking for in those messages, only to realize, it wasn't there. And I couldn't find a way to get gmail to just show that nothing matched what I was looking for.

bobbob1921 6y ago
I’ve come across this many times- mainly during ediscovery exports for IT clients. Best info I could find is that gmail does NOT support exact phrase matching , at all. (ie in the search “cat dog” , the quotes are ignored , so “my cat my dog is green” is returned as a match , unfortunately) This very much limits ediscovery flexibility and is unbelievable for a company that specializes in search