If they are doing this intentionally, then fuck Microsoft. Bunch of assholes as always. If this is mere incompetence, then again I'm not surprised that they fumbled such a simple task. Grep is literally 50 years old. They don't even have to write any code to do text search, they could use free software if they love it so much. This isn't some amateur startup with a CRUD app and 3 devs. This is one of the largest and wealthiest tech companies in the world, and they can't even get text search to work without a login? What a bunch of losers.

If there is a 3rd explanation, I'd love to hear it.