Now, that question before you in the email, you open a new browser tab, employ Google to find the right page on your site, follow the link, focus the address bar, copy the URL, go back to the Gmail tab, hit r and paste the link to answer the question.
Or you have Google Search enabled in Gmail, don't open a new tab, don't copy, don't switch and don't paste — and still get that link in your reply.
Search for Links and Send Them Comfortably Right in Gmail
To search the web and send links with snippets easily in Gmail:
- Make sure Google Search is enabled (see below).
- Click in the Web Search entry field.
- You can also hit g followed immediately by /
- Type the desired search term.
- Hit Enter.
- Hover with the mouse over the desired search result.
- Click the down arrow that appears.
- Select Send by email to create a new message with the search result inserted.
- Note that Gmail will create a rich-text message automatically. You can click « Plain Text to switch to, well, plain text without losing anything but formatting.
- While composing a message:
- Select Paste result to enter, at the current cursor position, the full search result including title and text snippet.
- Select Paste URL to insert only a link to the search result.
- Neither choice will change your message's type (rich or plain text).
- While viewing a conversation:
- Select Reply with result to create a new email reply that has the search result pre-filled in the message body.
- Again, this will result in a message that's rich text; click « Plain Text to change it to unformatted text.
- While chatting:
- Select Send by chat to... to create an instant message with the search result.
Enable Google Search in Gmail
To turn on inline web search in Gmail:
- Choose Settings from Gmail's top navigation bar.
- Go to the Labs tab.
- Make sure Enable is selected for Google Search.
- Click Save Changes.
