search taking so long
I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (M2 2022). I am running on MacOS Monterey 12.6 and using up about 50% of the storage capacity. I am finding searching in Finder agonizingly slow, much slower than I experienced on my previous computer a 2015 MacBook, with almost all of its storage capacity filled. Surely, a brand-new machine should be able to search for files more quickly. Can anyone suggest something I might check/do to speed up searches?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15