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The engineers at Google have made an effort to making search in Apps mail easier by developing a new built-in feature: Search Autocomplete. With Search Autocomplete, you'll get suggestions as you type in the search box of popular searches such as names or email addresses.
Some names are not easy to remember — with the built-in 'Search autocomplete' feature you can just type a couple letters and select the desired contact from the drop down list. Easy and quick as that.
You can also take advantage of the advanced search operators and Apps mail can help autocomplete those as well. With the search operators, you can search in specific places (e.g. in chats, labels, or sent items), or search for messages with attachments of a certain type (e.g. docs or photos).
Example:
Suppose you want to search for photos from a recent school event that were sent to you by the Photography teacher, Chris. Normally, you would have to enter Chris' email address followed by filename:(jpg OR png) which is a bit cumbersome and difficult to remember.
With Search Autocomplete, I can just type "photos" or "pictures," select "has photos" from the drop down list (as in the screenshot below), and the search query (filename:(jpg OR png)) gets inserted for me. Similarly, you can type in the word "attachment" and Search Autocomplete will list the most common attachment types for you.
You don't need to really understand the technical search query, but it is shown so that you can adapt it to your needs. For example, if you'd like to include tiff files in your search result, you can adapt the query manually to filename:(jpg OR png OR tiff).
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