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I'm not surprised. Gmail for quite some time couldn't find emails like this when you searched for "bank":

    Hey Steko,

    I'm going to the bank.

    Erik
Note the ending period. I know it takes time to sort out internal APIs so that you can re-use code effectively, but you think Google would have at least the basics of search split out into re-useable modules that they could snap into new applications. I guess not though.



It's even worse than that: a search for "doc" does not return results that contain "document".

Gmail is great, but it's search is appalling, and it's even worse that it's coming from Google.




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