Finder Find lists everything without limitation: why?

I have had this experience of the finder's find feature all the years I have had Mac OSX (i.e. since it was invented).
I enter some text into the finder find box and it lists everything. I enter pdf and get excel files and all else besides. I enter Canon (looking for my camera manual) and it lists jpegs and all else besides.
("all else" means every other file type and name regardless of file name)
In both cases I can see no evidence of the search being limited to either items with canon or items with pdf as part of their file name.
I am aware I could use "kind" to find files of type.
The point here is that in my experience the finder find function does not use the text entered into the "find box" to search, it just lists everything (limited only by the location if set).
Clearly no one else is complaining about this, so what is it I might be doing wrong? Or has "find" never worked in this circumstance (which is my experience) and we just accept this is the way life is because we all use something else (such as spotlight, which I don't use)
I should mention that the list of folders DOES work as advertised for me, in a canon search, all folders have "canon" in their name, but all the subsections below just list all files within that subset regardless of "filename".
Wise suggestions welcome please
Anthony
...me
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Find searches not only the file names but what is in the file and the metadata also. That's why you get everything listed. If you just want to search for a file name, then use the criteria buttons and change "Kind" to "Name."

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