Okay, to me the absolute worst problem with Steemit (and one that addresses this issue as well!), is that the only search I can seem to find on Steemit, searches the INTERNET, rather than STEEMIT.

Is it just my ad-blocker, or is the site really lacking this feature?!

Now, if I want to search the whole internet, I've got my own options for that. I don't need Steemit's. What I can't do, is so much as find even a complete directory of tags in use, let alone SEARCH STEEMIT.

The ability to search is also the easiest and most rational way around what you're talking about. This way, if I'm looking for advice on raising ferrets, or how to crochet, or how to build my own birdhouse, on STEEMIT, I can actually, possibly find that! Right now? No such luck.

Searching means people can find content on things that matter to them long after... well... the sunset "fades"! Chances of people searching "great sunset pictures?" Probably not so high. So they will perhaps make more to begin with, but probably (yet not by any malicious or controlling design) they will not likely make so much later on. So-and-so's post about how to build a fabulously cute birdhouse may not get many hits to begin with, but with a feature to actually search Steemit, every time someone searches birdhouse, or how to build one, that person's post probably WILL come up. So in the long run, people posting great info on niche topics, can still get rewarded.

Even the spam issue may be helped by this! If the same spam keeps coming up on people's searches, it's going to get flagged to death!

Seriously, I cannot believe there is no function to actually search STEEMIT. And that they use, of all things, GOOGLE. I actually have to go to another search engine, to find stuff on Steemit, and type in "whatever-the-topic-is Steemit!" (Or something like that.)

Honestly, I'm not sure how they could have made it any less efficient, if they had been deliberately trying! ~_~

The way things are right now, your content appears for about 30 seconds or less. Then, chances are, nobody will ever see it again. How is this a good thing?