<story><title>Google Memory Loss</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve convinced myself that this happens in gmail &amp;#x2F; hangouts history search too. It&amp;#x27;ll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done this methodically, and I can&amp;#x27;t prove that this is happening, but it&amp;#x27;s infuriating nonetheless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>This definitely happens. I have 1 email that is about 5 years old that I reference once or twice a year, often enough that it is a suggested search term. Recently Gmail has been unable to find it and I restored to starring it.  It is literally the only starred email I have but I can no longer search for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Memory Loss</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve convinced myself that this happens in gmail &amp;#x2F; hangouts history search too. It&amp;#x27;ll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done this methodically, and I can&amp;#x27;t prove that this is happening, but it&amp;#x27;s infuriating nonetheless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aglionby</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I&amp;#x27;m &lt;i&gt;sure&lt;/i&gt; I&amp;#x27;ve browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn&amp;#x27;t show up in search. I don&amp;#x27;t tend to have a clue about the time window it would be in either so I can&amp;#x27;t go looking for it, so I can&amp;#x27;t prove it.</text></comment>