Gmail Now Lets You Search for Emails by Size and More

Anita LiGmail has unveiled new ways to make searching for messages "faster and easier," the service announced Wednesday.

November 15, 2012 by Anita Li 2

has unveiled new ways to make searching for messages “faster and easier,” the service announced Wednesday. ‘s email client now lets users search by size, by exact match, with more flexible date options and , according to a blog post written by Gmail software engineer Christian Kurmann. For example, type in “size:5m” or “larger:5m” to find emails larger than 5MB, while searching for “older_than:1y” produces emails sent over a year ago. These changes “go hand in hand” with other recent improvements to Gmail, including a feature that shows when you search and improved autocomplete predictions, Kurmann wrote. Here’s How to Get the New Gmail Gmail started testing a new compose-and-reply format that makes it easier for users to reference other em...