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My experience is the polar opposite. I have to rely on a native client to search because GMail search is so bad. It hasn't been that fast for a while -- waiting
by nirvdrum 15y ago
My experience is the polar opposite. I have to rely on a native client to search because GMail search is so bad. It hasn't been that fast for a while -- waiting 30+s for a search is pretty routine nowadays. But worse, it's never really handled stemming well -- it has to be an exact word match, even for singular vs plural. And the number of false positives I get usually doesn't even make it worthwhile. I had resorted to deleting mail rather than archiving it, but that only helped marginally.
Having said that, I rely on too many marketplace apps now to make switching a reasonable alternative. So, I make do with native clients.
- evilduck 15y ago30s searches....I've gotta ask, how many gigabytes of email do you have? I've got about 3 and mine come back in less than a second.
- nirvdrum 15y agoOne account has 2.5 GB, another has 700 MB. I'm on a lot of mailing lists and get a lot of transactional email. I just timed switching a label and that took 4s on the smaller account. This is in Chrome with SPDY enabled, too, so I doubt it's client transport. I should probably note that it tends to be variable with the time of day. That's not unexpected, but still kinda sucks.
- gavinlynch 15y agoI have almost 2.5 GB's and also have zero problems with GMail's default search. Comes back in less than a second.
- nirvdrum 15y agoMaybe it's number of messages vs size of store. Or perhaps because a large percentage are similar in structure (google groups, monit alerts, etc.), they cause indexing to perform poorly. Dunno. But I wish I had < 1s searches.