Can I search email using gmail on an iPhone?

I'm stumped by this seemingly obvious feature.

One of the key things that makes gmail great is the ability to keep all your mail from forever and then search it using flexible google search when you need to find something.

I just got an iPhone and both the apple mail program, and even the google mobile app for iPhone appear to have left searching your mail off the list of capabilities. When you go to gmail.google.com from an iPhone, it recognizes that you are on an iPhone browser and redirects you to a fancy AJAX client that is very nice, but doesn't allow search.

There has to be a way? Anyone? I spent 2 hours searching the web for this issue and I have not found either a resolution, or even confirmation that you can't do it.

The google supplied gmail app on blackberry has search mail. Why would they leave that out on iPhone? It's a mystery.

If I can't search mail, I will probably return the iPhone. Browsing is nice, but there are a few must have email features…

You are correct, you can't search email with it.
this is a major gripe with the mobile gmail
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