Tired of Gmail misfiling real emails in spam? Google says it has a fix

The search function in Gmail will soon scour the Spam folder for missing emails that have either been mistakenly flagged by the user as spam or wrongly caught by Google's spam filter.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, Google has cut the Gmail spam filter's false-positive rate -- where wanted emails are wrongly marked as spam -- down to 0.5 percent.

To address this Google is changing the way search works in Gmail to make it easier to search the Spam folder, which has previously been excluded from searches from the main interface.

"Sometimes emails are mistakenly marked as spam or put into Trash, and they can be difficult to discover via search. To help address this issue, Gmail will now search in both the Trash and Spam folders (only Trash was indexed previously)

If a message in the Spam folder matches the search term, Gmail will present a footer at the bottom of search results.