Premiere Project and search bins not searching description data

I have children who have learned to walk, speak, run, read, play soccer, and do math in less time than it has taken Adobe to fix this critical bug. And it's a friggin basic text search that we're talking about that you can't do right. You're a joke and I'm really glad you don't make airplanes.

Sorry to come across impolite but this is infuriating. It's 2024. FIX THIS. 

It's not just that it sometimes doesn't work. Sometimes the search results are wrong or incomplete. So you literally cannot trust it even when it appears to be working.

Devs/techs: don't deflect and ask me for my machine specs or whatever. It's been reported for like 8 years on all manner of systems and versions. Just go read all the complaints and get to work. I used to write software and this would straight up embarrass me.

It's the same bug as this one

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/major-bug-with-search-filters-and-with-search-bins/td-p/10384477/page/2

And this one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-pro-cc-2019-13-0-2-search-find-bin-filter-issues/idc-p/13517866

And this one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/search-in-project-not-working-correctly/td-p/10219586

And probably a bunch of others.

I'm having the same issue, premiere pro 2024 

Still in 2021!

Same issue in 2021 with Premiere 15.2

I'm on 14.5 and I'm still having this problem. My search bins were working but now they're empty. Using the search window brings up nothing. This has been an on again off again problem with Premier for so long. It's a critical feature. When will they fix it?

Same issue here on 13.0.2

I have loads of descriptive information in Scene, Shot, Description, Comment, Log Note etc bothe in Clip Metadata and File (XMP) Metadata. The search box produces ZERO results when I search any of the words or even exact phrases in the search box at the top of the Project Panel, or use a Search Bin. ZERO! It's utterly useless! It can't even find file / bin / clip names!

This is a very basic and important feature for workflow. Adobe please address this!

Having the same issue since updating to newest version. Never had anything like this happen before. It's not like how in earlier versions search bar would occasionally be greyed out. Now you can enter searches but it doesn't work. Things that should show up do not show up. It's awful as I am working on an especially large project.

Just bringing this conversation back to the top, to say I have recently discovered this issue.

I have found the same behavior with search bins. The search bin behavior is extremely inconsistent and buggy. I make heavy use of the Scene, Shot and Good metadata fields, all of which search bins purport to be able to search. In fact, sometimes they will find all the clips with given metadata, sometimes they'll find only some (and they'll also find clips that should not match) and sometimes they will find no clips at all.

Basically, in their current state, search bins are worse than useless (see the thread titled "search bin horror"). If you can't trust that the bin is finding all the media you've requested, then why have the feature?

Adobe: this is a ridiculous bug to have in such a mature product, and robust search is extremely important to editing workflow. Please fix this!!