Gmail search not returning results

[Brainaddict]

Something weird is going on with my gmail where I am searching for things I know are in there - like the receipt for an item from a particular brand - and it isn't returning results. The weirdest one is searching for results from a building society, for whom I know I have a string of emails, and it only returns results from this year, even if I change the date for longer in the advanced search. It's a real problem as I don't know things like my building society username - not the sort of thing I write down, I just search in gmail. Yeah, probably not secure but it's worked for ages.

Has anyone else had problems like this? Or can think of what's going wrong?

 

[two sheds]

How are you searching? I've just done a control F in Firefox on for example Personal and it picks stuff out ok.

 

[Brainaddict]

Just searching for everything in a desktop browser. It's very weird.

 

[newme]

Not sure what email client you are using but I tested search on 2 gmail accounts in outlook and it worked fine and matched my phone results

 

[Brainaddict]

Just the gmail interface. Thanks for trying, though I just mean the search function provided by google in the interface provided by google.

 

[smmudge]

Whenever I try to search for anything in my Gmail emails (using Gmail app) it will never find it, even if it's a word in the title of the 2nd item in the inbox. Though it might find a random email I sent 17 years ago, which doesn't contain the word anywhere. For a software company that built the world's most used search engine, the search function in its own app is pretty useless.