The Surprising Shift: How Social Media Is Secretly Becoming the New Search Engine—and What It Means for You
Instagram’s search feature isn’t all that great.
It has no search filters and instead separates results for keywords into different tabs: For You, Accounts, Audio, Tags, Places and Reels.
What it does well is keep a database of results for specific hashtags, which is why hashtags are so popular on Instagram.
If you enter a hashtag into the search bar, you’ll find results for posts that use that hashtag.
Unfortunately, there are no search results here, either, so you can’t filter or sort these results by popularity.
