Gmail Search Operators
I follow @GoogleAtWork on twitter and they twittered This link that shows how to use search operators in Gmail. I was shocked. This has changed my world. This link to see them all. I’m going to talk about a few that I’m going to start using.
“from:elliot filename:pdf” shows all messages from Elliot that have a pdf attachment
“from:eliot has:attachment” shows all messages from Elliot that have any attachment
“from:eliot in:anywhere” Shows all messages from Elliot that are in any folder trash, spam, sent…
I really like the in: feature normally I have to switch to that mailbox then do a search this way I can do all my searches from my inbox. (in:trash, in:spam)
Is:unread This shows me all my unread email
after:2004/04/16 before:2004/04/18 Messages sent between April 16, 2004 and April 18, 2004.*
If you start using labels more and/or you use Gmail to check several email address like I do the label operator is invaluable.
hi…
This is slightly OT, but it cuts to the heart of GMail’s searching capability. I was using GMail a lot until I realized that GMail doesn’t search the contents of attachments. I don’t know about the rest of you, but that puts a serious crimp in its usefulness, at least in terms of being my primary email client. I need to be able to find those document
Hardy
Well i think these search operators seems quite helpful in saving a lot of time, i use check with labels and move to option, but i think for my web hosting link building campaign, i have to contact a lot of web master, in response i receive a lot email, after having deal i use to make it starred, but still it was confusing, as you cant see a specific email among the stared one directly. So in short it worth visiting your page, these operators seems very useful.
Yeah, they are really good though I don’t use much operators within Gmail and rely on searching emails hehe but for Google Search, yes I do use it and very recently I found out on Google’s help that it has a calculator in it as well hehe.
Just type the numbers in the search field for e.g. : 35 + 25 and hit Enter, it will give you the sum of both.
There are many such features available but I don’t remember the link, but I found it in Google help.
Regards
Ken Lowman
I did a search for “Houston Electrician” earlier in the day without being logged in. Later on I did a search for “Houston Doctor”. This is when I got this result. I’m pretty sure the electricians are not advertising for “Houston Doctor”. I opened IE and logged out of Google and did the same search and did not get those results. I went back to Firefox did the same search and still got the electricians. I then searched for “houston doctor” several times in IE and never got the electricians. I then did a search for “houston electrician” and then did a search for “houston doctor” and got the electrician ads this time.