When searching through emails in Gmail, how to always exclude hangouts (-in:chats) [closed]

Question

Every time I want to search through my email, it's slow as can be, because it's also searching through my hangouts history.. I receive hundreds of messages a day, and searching through mail has become quite the chore. Every time I'll have to append:

-in:chats

to the search terms. Is there any way for Gmail to stop searching through my hangouts, unless I specify it? in:chats?

Answer 1

Was struggling with similar problem. Then asked myself, the Search Function must be found in the Search box itself.

If you click in the search box, you will see an arrow on the right, click on it, and a small box appears. "Don't include chats"

There you go !