The search autocompletes almost every other recent term I used. It's not a recency issue.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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In defense of Reddit (yuck), if there's been one constant in all the years of its existence, it's been that their search is the worst. Not saying it's not intentional, cause it probably is, but damn if they've not worked hard to establish plausible deniability.
It's entirely possible the index for type-ahead search is not refreshed all the time but every day or week, which means it'll lag on words that weren't in the news a day ago
Yes this makes total sense for a site like reddit where topical elements trend..
Have to agree. Always has and will be ass.
I checked other (non-political) recent keywords and it seems to be doing ok.