Searching Your Email: The Right Way and The Wrong Way

One of the surprising results of our recent survey sent to employees to solicit views on Google Apps was a relatively high number of responses from people who have difficulty with the search feature in Gmail.

Search is Google’s bread and butter, but in order to get effective results you have to search differently in Gmail than you would surfing the web at google.com. We’ve discussed searching in Gmail before on our Help Desk website via a link to Google’s search info, here in BroncoBytes, in UPDATE, in our Google Apps training videos, in our post-implementation Google Apps meetings with departments, etc., but there are still many people who have no idea how to search and sort email in Google Apps.

As a timely reminder of using search efficiently in Gmail, Google has posted about search operators on their official Gmail blog today. Have a look, learn how to search in Gmail (if you don’t already know), and spread the word to those around you.

Tip: Slice and dice your mail with search operators (Official Gmail Blog)