Steemit never put any effort into searches.

In fact, they designed steem to be as unsearchable as possible.

Almost two years ago, someone was working on making you be able to hide all the resteems in a person's feed. (So you could see THEIR articles... you know, like you went there to find) And, it was almost done... accept the back end couldn't handle it.

We should be able to go to a person's blog page and search by date, title word and limit by tags. As a bare minimum. However, this is superly hard on the back-end servers.

I should be able to go to the "New" list and sort by tag-cloud or word count. I should be able to exclude posts that only have a video, or just a picture (meme)...

So much should be done with the meta data... three years ago.