This seems crazy the reason we're here is to get away from the monster. It can't be that hard for people who have created this site to write a search function?
Why is steemit feeding our searches into that monster? Many of us now use alternatives like duckduckgo.com for privacy.
This seems like a very weak link in the privacy and censorship fight. Maybe the devs should talk to the aforementioned search engine and get some collaboration going.
Also, I can't use the function from my location without a VPN. Actually, I can't use DuckDuckgo.com either but hey the point still stands.
And I see you still haven't fixed the problem with Grammarly corrections being auto undone that I mentioned to devs last year as a bug report.