So that's why search got broken lately.

I used to be able to search for parts of names. Or a word that is part of a word in a message. Doesn't work anymore. Only exact matches now, or you don't get anything.

It is even worse if you commit the offense of searching for something with an unmatched quotation mark. (Like 1-1/2" for example). Zero results, every time. Makes searching for trades related information in my emails a pain.

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You are not wrong there!

Huh? This is not the case for me at all, just tested. Not doubting your experience, but it's weird that such a fundamental aspect of search (not even targettable to anything) would differ from user to user.

Just to clarify, we were discussing gmail search and not the main web search. I just tested again, if I search for 1-1/2" (with the quote mark) I get zero results.

This is google-for-business or whatever they call it now.

Thank you for posting this. I thought I was going insane, failing to find something I was 100% sure should be there.

Damn, truly we are the products.

Give your (preferably local) LLM-based agent read access to your email.

They’re pretty good at cross-referencing across multiple formats.

For a complete noob, what tools would you suggest to use? I have a gaming Nvidia GPU with 10GB RAM.

For the easy path:

- Serve the model with either Ollama or *LM Studio* (the latter 'hides' their traditional Studio on the download page for the agentic one they are preferring you use).

- For the model, Gemma 4 E4B is a nice combination of performance and speed with a decent context size. Not good enough for complex coding needs, but the Qwen models work okay for that (10GB GPU gets you less than you might think).

- For the interface I'd suggest either OpenCode or Pi.

Personally I run LM Studio and in the UI switch on its built in OpenAI compatible API, then point OpenCode at that and run it alongside (not in) my IDE.