Lot of good ideas.

My biggest gripe is the lack of options to find the category of posts I am searching for. I have to leave the front-end I am using, and go somewhere else in most cases. Otherwise I am stuck viewing algorithmic selected posts (basically ADs), just like google, promoted to bonkers levels to get me to click on it.

When all the search filters are designed to get me to upvote something fresh, to benefit an author, instead of helping me to find something specific that exists I am searching for, we have a big problem.

The basic search tool has not evolved much at all on Hive. I agree, a filter search would be great. Any advanced search options are the most obvious missing features.

I would love to be able to turn on Hive Cookies, for instance, and the search results fills up with things geared towards posts I visit the most frequently, or similar to the ones I've curated. Add a tag word, and the search becomes even more narrowed down.

Eventually search needs to allow a person to type in a quotation, and find the exact post that quotes the searched item. Reverse image search would be wonderfully useful too, to find out who originally posted an image.