Do you mean you're using the map on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/ to search for things? This map isn't really meant to be search

Do you mean you're using the map on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/ to search for things? This map isn't really meant to be searched, and the usability is generally terrible, I'm not sure why they keep it up on the website. Zooming in over my workplace (in Miami, FL) and searching "Pizza" brings up results for Italy and Nigeria. OpenStreetMap is a great datasource and set of APIs though, on which other people have built really useful map applications. But OSM itself is not an attempt to compete with all of Google Maps, just to provide high quality tiles, path/nodes and place database to developers.