Mac Mail AUTOCOMPLETE vs. SEARCH?

i am having fits with mac mail.
does anyone know if the SEARCH box uses the same information as the AUTOCOMPLETE?
i just tried to enter a person "giorgio" into an autocomplete to send them a mail and no autocomplete comes up. so then i go to the search box to enter this name and while no actual MAIL comes up (there should be i think at least in the On My Mac section) there IS an autocomplete for "From: Giogio Last Name").
is there some reason the search box finds a from and an autocomplete does not find the same name? also, does anyone know where the search box gets its information? right now when the search autocompletes it just autocompletes with the "From: Giorgio Last Name" and in order to try and grab the email i have to sort of hover midway so that search does not autocomplete and READ the email address it is showing before i make the selection and then manually type this into the To box in my email.
this is sort of inconvenient but also sort of confusing.

hi barney.
thank you. this is very helpful. for some reason both of these seem to be acting regularly weird and i was not able to figure this out.
for some reason Mail Search does not seem to return /any/ mail results for this search even though the /name/ shows up in the "From" dialog here. do you have any reason why this would be the case or how i might investigate further? i mean, presumably if a result is showing up here then there is in fact an email in Mac Mail that came "From" this sender and this mail would currently exist in either an IMAP account or in the ON MY MAC section is that right?
i am having a hard time figuring out how to research this since if the name shows up in the mail search but i don't see it in the search results - - hmmm - i guess i should manually search in the On My Mac section and in the IMAP inbox by sorting by from sender and alphabetically looking up this sender i guess? then i can provide more info on this?
also, same for the To autocomplete. i am almost positive that i have sent mail to this sender from my Mac Pro but i can check this easily by looking in the Window > Previous Recipients and manually looking up the name here, yes?
the search in particular has not been working well and i recently took online advice to follow a tech article about deleting some Mail folder file and rebuilding the index but this does not seem to be working AFAIK. seems odd to get a mail search result NAME but no actual MAIL showing up...

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