How-To: Exclude Chat from Gmail Search Results

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Rahul Gupta from Delhi asks this simple question in his email about chat results in Gmail search.

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” Whenever i do a search on my Gmail Inbox, i get all the chat results also in the search result page. Is it possible to exclude the chat results in the search? “

Yes. It is possible to exclude Chat from Gmail Search Results. In order to do so, all you need to do is type in -label:Chat in the search string typed in the Gmail search box.

-label:Chat in the query string filters and removes all the chat conversations from search results.

+label:Chat in the query string ensures that search results only from Chat conversations are shown in the search results page.

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Cheers

Vaibhav

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8 Responses

  1. Sailen, on November 6th, 2007 at 11:42 pm Said:

    sahiii .. mast feature haii

  2. Niyaz PK, on November 7th, 2007 at 8:45 am Said:

    Thanks for the info.

  4. Martha Lednicky, on December 6th, 2007 at 9:29 am Said:

    I have a similar question. Is there a way for the filters to exclude CHATS? I don’t want CHATS in my labels, but I don’t know how to specify this.

    Thank you!

  6. Gaurav Jain, on January 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pm Said:

    Excellent post, keep up the good work!!

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