steemit's search function has been broken since the beginning.
It should be very easy to search for a topic by a particular steemer and find those post... but no, its almost impossible.
It should be very easy to search for a topic and get the latest in that category, but you basically have to know how to edit the URL manually.
lol, yeah.. It could have certainly been approved upon. However has fallen to the back burner me thinks.
this is something that has always bothered me as well