Google makes what many consider the best search engine on the planet, so it’s no surprise that it builds Google Search into Gmail on the Droid 2. Searching is straightforward, as long as you understand one very important point: When you launch a search, you search only through the current label. So if you have some messages in your Work label, and you search in your Family folder, the search won’t find those Work messages.
What if you don’t remember what label you’ve stored a message in? Then go to All Mail and do a search from there. That way, you’ll find mail from all your labels (except Spam and Trash), as well as your archived mail.
To search, press the Menu key, and then tap the Search button. As you type, Gmail displays previous searches you’ve done that match those letters and narrows the search as you type. If you see a search term you want to use, tap it. If not, type the entire search term, and then tap Search.
After you enter your search terms, you see a display of all matching email. Gmail searches through the To, From, and Subject fields, as well as the messages’ text. In the upper-left corner, you see the search term you entered.
Gmail lets you do some pretty fancy searching—after all, Google is the search king. So you can search by To, From, Subject, specific labels, and a lot more. Say you want to search for all email with the word “Halloween” in the subject line. Type the following in the search box:
Subject:Halloween
You can search other Gmail fields, as shown on the following list (head to http://tinyurl.com/gmail-search for a more complete list):
You can combine these search terms with one another, and with a search of the text of the message. So to search for all email in your Work label with the word “budget” in it, you’d do this search:
In:Work Budget