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Comment by mmargenot | Hacker News Reader

Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.

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This, and some results smartly ignoring the selected sort order because gmail suggests you "follow up", both work together to paint a vivid picture of a disassociated product team who no longer understands their customer.

Fastmail is great, and has fantastic migration tools. I have all 131,000+ emails in Fastmail, nothing left in gmail, I don't miss it.

And the search works and is precise.

Took me months to decide to migrate (even though its on my own domain) but I haven't looked back.

is there a way to fix this? came up couple of times rather critical when I couldnt find an important mail, it just stopped showing up with the search query that I used

I just retried a few queries that were failing ~3 days ago and they are returning correct [enough] results on mobile as of today, when I don't need them. I'm not sure of the cause or how to actually trigger a reindex or a fix when I need it.

Gmail search has really gone to the dogs, lately. The new AI inbox is surprisingly useful, though. No doubt a coincidence.

tangential but Google finance (stocks) turned unusable for me: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/CART:NASDAQ

I can't for the life of me understand how to use it, especially on mobile. Everything turns into an AI conversation. WTF I just want to see the ticker chart. It makes me feel old and out of touch. But also, it's just so horrible. Truly unusable. I went with apple and yahoo - tons of ads but at least I can see the chart.

Same with iOS quick search...

Google hard at work to catch up with MS Teams search.

Asana has the same problem. Really frustrating.

Killing and restarting the app unbreaks this. Maybe someone from the team could, you know, fix that?

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