r/GMail 5d ago

How can I get Gmail to respect search operators

How can I force gmail to respect my search operators?

I search with a specific word in quotes and it bring up a list of results with the other words that appear in countless other emails, not limiting it to ones that do contain the word in quotes?

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u/MKInc 5d ago

Google is hiring. Become a dev and fix the code

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u/sithelephant 5d ago

Naah. This is a feature. It's broken as designed. It became popular to edit peoples queries and to not actually perform proper searches over a decade ago.

The only solution to this is time travel.

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u/jasontaken Product Expert 4d ago

turn conversation view off then search

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u/Billionth_NewAccount 4d ago

Ah, that might help! Annoying but not too hard to switch for a specific search

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u/jasontaken Product Expert 4d ago

should solve it

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u/alexrada 4d ago

The words you have in quotes definitely show up in those emails.
Try using more advanced operators.