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Not only that, I also found that if you search by sender name and the sender name is never in any of the subject of any of your emails, it doesnt find it.

tvon 17y ago
use "from:example.com" or similar... important part being the "from:" bit
- gecko 17y ago
  Speaking of which: you and I, as developers, understand search axes, and use them intuitively. But they're utterly opaque for someone who hasn't encountered that interface before--and given that Google itself doesn't support search axes in its main product, I don't think they're an interface someone's likely to learn elsewhere, either. If you're unaware of search axes, you have to click, "Show search options," which is in an extremely tiny font, next to a button that very notably says "Search the Web"--not search my inbox. Furthermore, once you actually discover that, and use it, you still don't know about the axes, because that search box doesn't use them. The only place where you can discover search axes is by clicking on a label, which results in "label:foo" being shown in the search box--but that's actually a lie, because the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it. So, yeah. Axes are great. And they're completely unintuitive and impossible to discover in Gmail unless you read the help, which no user ever does. So you've done a great job finding a part of Gmail's search interface that's at least as broken as the underlying implementation.
  - tvon 17y ago
    > The only place where you can discover search axes is by clicking on a label, which results in "label:foo" being shown in the search box (...) That's how I found it, and I learned a little more about it by a need to get all mail to/from a specific client for a specific month and doing advanced searches. Granted, that's also how I learned about "site:", by going to advanced search on Google and specifying a single site to search, the resulting page shows the "site:" in the search box. > (...) but that's actually a lie, because the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it. Good point, though as far as I can tell the number of results is the only difference... but still, it's a bit misleading.
  - tsuraan 17y ago
    "the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it." The output is different because it only shows me 20 rows per page when I search on label:label, versus 100 rows if I click the label, but the results are the same. Were you seeing something more broken that the number of results per page? FWIW, I've tried it on a few labels, none having fewer than 10,000 messages in them.
    - gecko 17y ago
      There are many subtle differences: as you noted, the rows per page differs; clicking to select all offers "Select all conversations that match this search," rather than "Select all conversations in <Label>"; the "Remove label <Foo>" button disappears; an Archive button appears; "Move to" disappears, but "Move to Inbox" appears instead; etc. It's not broken in the sense that it doesn't work, but it's broken in the sense that Google's implying an equivalence that is not there.
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shrikant 17y ago
This is just not true.. at least it doesn't seem to be, for me. Do a lot of people face this??

tvon 17y ago

use "from:example.com" or similar... important part being the "from:" bit

gecko 17y ago
Speaking of which: you and I, as developers, understand search axes, and use them intuitively. But they're utterly opaque for someone who hasn't encountered that interface before--and given that Google itself doesn't support search axes in its main product, I don't think they're an interface someone's likely to learn elsewhere, either. If you're unaware of search axes, you have to click, "Show search options," which is in an extremely tiny font, next to a button that very notably says "Search the Web"--not search my inbox. Furthermore, once you actually discover that, and use it, you still don't know about the axes, because that search box doesn't use them. The only place where you can discover search axes is by clicking on a label, which results in "label:foo" being shown in the search box--but that's actually a lie, because the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it. So, yeah. Axes are great. And they're completely unintuitive and impossible to discover in Gmail unless you read the help, which no user ever does. So you've done a great job finding a part of Gmail's search interface that's at least as broken as the underlying implementation.
- tvon 17y ago
  > The only place where you can discover search axes is by clicking on a label, which results in "label:foo" being shown in the search box (...) That's how I found it, and I learned a little more about it by a need to get all mail to/from a specific client for a specific month and doing advanced searches. Granted, that's also how I learned about "site:", by going to advanced search on Google and specifying a single site to search, the resulting page shows the "site:" in the search box. > (...) but that's actually a lie, because the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it. Good point, though as far as I can tell the number of results is the only difference... but still, it's a bit misleading.
- tsuraan 17y ago
  "the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it." The output is different because it only shows me 20 rows per page when I search on label:label, versus 100 rows if I click the label, but the results are the same. Were you seeing something more broken that the number of results per page? FWIW, I've tried it on a few labels, none having fewer than 10,000 messages in them.
  - gecko 17y ago
    There are many subtle differences: as you noted, the rows per page differs; clicking to select all offers "Select all conversations that match this search," rather than "Select all conversations in <Label>"; the "Remove label <Foo>" button disappears; an Archive button appears; "Move to" disappears, but "Move to Inbox" appears instead; etc. It's not broken in the sense that it doesn't work, but it's broken in the sense that Google's implying an equivalence that is not there.

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shrikant 17y ago

This is just not true.. at least it doesn't seem to be, for me. Do a lot of people face this??