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billfruit on April 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A rundown of the new Gmail

Something as bare minimum as stemming while searching(ie, if you presently search in Gmail for the string 'orange', the results does not include emails that may only contain the string 'oranges') strings inside emails is yet to be implemented by Google. Any possible reason why something that sounds simple is yet not implemented?

Raidion on April 25, 2018 [–]

Wildcard searches are expensive and gmail has a LOT of data. I bet it would cost them more than you expect.

linsomniac on April 25, 2018 | [–]

But stemming isn't wildcard...

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