Date:         Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:27:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Geordie Birch <geordie@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Geordie Birch <geordie@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Was "How do we remove" now searching the archives again - long
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 I just tried this myself and it worked just fine.  Only posts from
Dennis Haynes were returned.  Try it again.

 Geordie.



On 9/13/06, Sam Walters <sam.cooks@verizon.net> wrote:

> Last
> night, just to test Gmail, I asked Gmail to find posts in my limited
> inbox from Dennis Haynes and it found a post where his name was in the
> body and was sent by someone else.  So the engine didn't do what it was
> told to do, a limited search of senders' names and email addresses, but
> rather searched the body of all the messages.  This is a serious flaw
> which weakens its functionality in the long run when the database is
> large.  If you can't control the search, you will not get what you want
> and will get too much which is the big problem with Google.  > This would,
> for example give me any post which mentioned the Haynes manual, which I
> didn't want.  So, Gmail doesn't have a capability that it seems to have
> from the template for the advanced search terms.  What if a username had
> "brake" in it and I would get back every post that contained "brake"
> instead on only those that had brake in the user name, when I knew that
> this user posted some great posts on brake repairs several years ago.  I
> would have way too much garbage that the search engine should have been
> able to discard.

> I often use the sender's name when I know that a person has written on a
> topic in a detailed knowledgeable way in the past.  Why read dozen or
> hundreds of emails when the right answer will definitely be found in one
> person's posts.  So to not have this as a true search controlling
> function is a substantial flaw.