+1

(For those on 2.1, the standard google search bar widget will search Contacts and Appointments in addition to the web).

 

Ok so here is what you can do to search people by company (or anything besides their name):

1) Press the magnifying glass (4th soft button)
2) Next to the search box their should be a blue box with a white google "g", press that. Doing so will bring up a window with all, web, apps, etc.
3) Press people
4) search for the company name or whatever.

Also after pressing the search button (step 1) you can hit the menu button then some settings will pop up were you can select different seach options. I have not messed around with it much but you may be able to get it to default seach phone and web that way.

 

My Google Search only lists All, Web, Apps. It doesn't list people.

 

Thank you so much!!!! I have missed the feature greatly from by BB days.

 

Useful information, but I am not seeing the same results (EVO Android 2.2).
Thanks for this post.
I can search on "people" now, but only on name, company, title.
I cannot search on phone numbers, email addresses, notes, ...
I tried calendar too and it does not find even by subject
Both contacts and calendar are sync'd from Outlook.
Any ideas?
I still can't believe there is not easy way to search within such key components ...

 

This is one of the biggest features I miss from WebOS. I want to be able to type "Company Name" in my search and all individuals for said company get listed.

Any alternate phone apps which do this well?

 

You could try 'Contact Search', it's a free app and does partial word search on most of the contact fields. More details here -> Contact Search

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Dislaimer, I'm the author of this app.

 

+1 Contact Search rocks! It will even search your notes within the contacts!

A must have for business users!