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Gmail: search mail for partial texts fails #20

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. exampl:have a abcd@ef.gh mail adress in contact ,and have a mail from 
abcd@ef.gh 
2. in gmail,if search "abc" in search-box
3. you will find no result ,but have a mail in inbox .

Original issue reported on code.google.com by czle...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2006 at 7:04

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Original comment by sew...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2006 at 10:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by sew...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2006 at 10:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can reproduce this error but I can't see why you want to do this. Could you 
give
real-live examples of why you would need this? Aren't you in fact asking for 
wildcard
search? Because this isn't even posible on Google search itself.

A search does work on "abc" for emails from "abc.d@ef.gh".

Original comment by sew...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2006 at 8:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Gmail doesn't search for partial words at all. E.g. "Laugh" does NOT find 
"Laughing" etc.

Original comment by samdavy...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2006 at 8:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
By placing a comma "," or plus "+" sign, you can search for multiple words. But 
its
not possible to search partial letters of a whole word.

Try this, email yourself this:
------------------

This is a story of the laughing man.
He laughed so hard he almost had a stroke.
Should he have another laugh he may blow.
Thank you laughing-gas!

------------------
then query "laugh,laughing" or "laugh+laughing" & it will highlight both words 
for
you, but if you search "laugh" alone, it will only highlight it & skip 
"laughing".

notice if you search for "laughing" it will highlight it in the words 
"laughing-gas".
SamDavyson has a point, this should be fixed to some degree.

Original comment by josueme...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2006 at 10:43

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Original comment by sew...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2006 at 6:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It's incredible that the king of the search do not accept partial word search. 
If Yahoo mail do this easely, 
why not google?

Original comment by camargo....@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2009 at 9:45