Search Autocomplete is new Gmail Lab, introduced to assist you finding anything on your Gmail account, from emails in inbox, outbox, folders to the person name and email address from your contact book.

To get it to work, please enable it from Gmail Lab. As you typing few letters , Search Autocomplete will list down whatever subject, name or file that match with the letters.

Finding any media type or attachment also has been improved, with the introduction of simple operator that anyone can remember easily.

For instance if you want to search for photos, as you typing the first few letter for pictures, images or photos, autocomplete will suggest ‘has photos‘ and turn the key phrase to ‘filename:(jpg OR png)’ . It will search every email with images.

Other useful operator is in:inbox if want to find email that only located in inbox.

Other samples of operator

has attachment -> has:attachment

has pictures/photos/images -> has filename:(jpg OR jpeg OR png)

has documnet -> filename:(pdf OR doc OR xls OR ppt) OR docs.google.com OR spreadsheets.google.com

has video -> filename:(avi OR mov OR mpg OR mpeg OR mp4) OR youtube.com/watch

has calender event -> filename:ics

in inbox -> in:inbox

in chat -> in:chat