Gmail's AI-powered search works well

The Gmail Web interface now standardly1 generates an AI summary for you when you search your email. If you ask or imply a question, it will try to answer it. If you don't, it will give some best-effort information. The feature is good. I, like many people, instinctively work around new LLM-enhanced versions of features: I've just had too many bad chatbot interactions (e.g.). But seeing exactly what I was looking for, often enough and prominently enough, got me to start trying it out. This meant (i) actually reading the summaries sometimes and (ii) sometimes just describing what I wanted in the search bar instead of trying to optimize keywords or similar. I don't have much to say about its functioning except that it works: it reliably finds the information I'm looking for, only rarely includes extraneous or inaccurate elements, and links to its source email usefully. The only annoyance is that it pushes some (traditional) search results off the screen or makes them jump around on it.…