Can you just clarify if it's a  system bug that your engineers are trying to fix now OR  you just implemented the restrictions for the search functionality.

If it is the second option that it is really craziness. You should fire your useless software engineers who could do it.

Why? QBO search worked perfectly for the whole LIFE time of the account not only for 2 last yeats and it was one the reason why i always recommended my customers Quckbooks Online and not other cloud apps, for example Xero

And now the system became much worse and my customers and i need to go and create some reports and search the transactions there instead of just put key words of description or sum in the search window and search there instantly