but Outlook 2007's inbox search is absolutely atrocious as well.

The search results should do substrings but they should also rank by relevance.

Where the obligatory:

"Bob's your uncle"?

You never call. You never write.

I'm always getting mail from people I've never heard of. They must have just got the wrong Bob.

Instead of adding these whiz-bang "features" to Gmail, why doesn't Google spend time to fix the worthless "search" box they have on Gmail, that can't even find substrings? It wouldn't find "mail" in "gmail" if you searched for it.

The world's foremost search engine provider provides the absolute worst search engine for its email system, and yet takes it to even a lower level by *removing* standard sorting tools from it as well!