Are you frustrated that when you search g-mail there are only 20 results that show up at a time? It’s quite difficult to review, mark, and move messages when the search results are limited to 20 messages.
Does it make sense that a “search company” which offers GIGABYTES of storage in their e-mail system limits your result count to 20? No. Of course not.
Solutions
1. Creating a Filter (thanks Stephan)
Create a filter with your search. Put your keywords in the "Contains the words" field, then click "test search" and hit continue. Next, create a label and apply the filter (ignore the warning that this will never apply to incoming mail) for the mail below. Of course it's complicated to create a filter each time you want to search for a large amount of mail, but still better than the 20 mail-limit.
2. Suggest that Google fix it
Visit the GMAIL SUGGESTIONS PAGE and choose the second one from the bottom “Better message search functionality” – also, possibly choose the dropdown box at the bottom, select OTHER, and tell google you want more than 20 results! :)
One Related Labs Feature
If you haven’t seen QuickLinks in Google Labs, it’s worth checking out. It still only gives you 20 results, but it is a way of having saved searches easily available without having to create a filter.
About Quick Links
Adds a box to the left column that gives you 1-click access to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. You can use it for saving frequent searches, important individual messages, and more.
Nick Maceus
there’s a workaround for this problem: Just create a filter with your search in “Contains the words, then make a test search and hit continue. Now you can create a label and apply the filter(Ignore the warning that this will never apply to incoming mail) for the mail below.
Of course it’s a complicated to create a filter each time you want to search for a large amount of mail, but still better than the 20 mail-limit.
thanks. i made the suggestion.