English verbs | search | search for | confusing English vocabulary "Search" and "search for" are two different things. search for something = you look for something search something = you look in and around that object Police were searching FOR the missing child. Where is this child? Police searched the man's house. What was inside? I searched FOR one my friend's on Facebook. Where is she? We searched the woods. What was inside? Yes, we can "search something FOR something." We searched the islan