Isn't it weird that Gmail will not auto-complete an address if you only type the domain part? E.g. I have dozens of email addresses like this:
feedback![[put at-character here]](image/at.gif) example.com
feedbackfriendfeed.com
feedbackfoobar.com
... etc. When I want to write to say FriendFeed, naturally I will enter "friendfeed" in the recipient field and not "feedback" (though I am forced to do the latter, as the former won't work). |
If it did what you are suggesting, how would it handle things like @yahoo.com, @gmail.com, @hotmail.com etc? Those webmail services have millions of users and if you had a couple hundred email addresses of friends in your address book that use those webmail services, how would you want it to auto-complete that for you? |
Easy: sorted by how often you communicate (that's how Gmail sorts addresses). |
Colin, I was not trying to suggest that Gmail should stop using the name before the @ for auto-completion. However, if nothing before the @ returns a hit, they may as well start offering me a "full text search" result for the auto-completion. I only have a single email address containing the word "friendfeed" for instance – it makes perfect sense to return feedbackfriendfeed.com to me when I enter "friendf.." instead of returning nothing at all. |
