One of the most requested improvements by Gmail users is further enhancements to the search feature. In a short announcement today, Google wrote: “Better search results based on your recent searches in Gmail. The announcement only mentions Gmail.com for the web and not the Gmail App for mobile.
Google optimized Gmail’s search function in July this year, and can provide personalized query suggestions based on “the frequency of your interaction with colleagues through Gmail” and other “historical exchanges”. Another improvement at the time was the deployment of new machine learning models to provide “more relevant and contextual contact suggestions and intent matching for names and email addresses.” For example, reorder suggestions to match contacts sorted by first name or email address instead of the last name.
