I think it’s the way the fediverse works, an inherit limitation, by the fact that it’s not all on one server that’s easily indexed.
However we do have lemmy search:
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If only it allowed to search all the communities at once, since it can't do that it's not really helpful
With federation, a server tends to have posts/comments for the communities that its users subscribe to. You most likely will get the most comprehensive search result on the biggest instance, which is lemmy.world now. And who knows when it's going to start dropping off old data.