Why does finder not actually find?!!!!

I shouldn't have to be asking this surely!!?
I click "all my files" on Finder which I assume is "all my files" or downloads if i have downloaded and I search for something (very often exactly as spelled) I have just downloaded or many times just files I have already and either it can't find it or it sits way down the list after loads of unrelated files?
When I enter a search string in to something that is made for searching I expect it to find it! Finder seems to have special secret ways of finding that I am not party too!
Can someone please explain why this is so? And in advance there is no and I mean NO reason why there should be any other setting on first opening finder other than just FIND WHAT I ASK FOR! So please just straight answers no tutting or RTFM replies.
Hhhhhhhhelllllllp me thankyou

mexica72 wrote:
Bottom of list, which doesn't make sense as it is prioritising files with the word within the file, and not what you would expect, which would be files actually called that in the title!
Cmd-ctrl-shift-F will find by name. Spotlight is designed to find content.
Or, on a normal (cmd-F) find, choose name matches from the token list.

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