Gmail
Finds Similar Words and
Spelling Mistakes
Gmail has constantly improved its search feature in the past few months. After adding spell checking, suggestions, searching inside attachments,
Gmail **w matches
Similar Words that have
the same root. You can find a message even if you don't remember the exact
Words and that's pretty helpful.
**w you can search for [cat] and find messages that include the word [cats], search for [start] and find messages that only include [starting], search for [usable] and match [usability], search for [colour] and match [color], [coloured], [colours], [multicolor] and more.
Gmail also
Finds Spelling Mistakes like "clours" instead of "colours".
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Gmail's search feature is less sophisticated than Google Search, so
Gmail won't find sy**nyms and acronyms. You won't find messages that include "New York" when you search for [NY] or messages that include "tv" when you search for [television], at least **t yet.
To prevent
Gmail from finding related matches, use the + operator. For example, search for [+usable] and
Gmail will ** longer return messages that only include "usability".
