I can't figure out to search

Respectfully, this is not what I'm seeing. I have three ipads. Two just updated from 12.4.1 to 13.1.2, the other still has 12.4.1. With the 12.4.1 ipad, I swipe from left to right on the home screen and get, among other things, a search bar. I can type in the name of an app, Google, and see all apps that match that along with some other recommendations. On the two that just updated, if I swipe from left to right I get the new "Today" view...which I find not useful. If I do as you suggest, I get a notifications area but it does NOT have a search bar. This is the behavior on both ipads that were updated to 13.1.2.

I've tried several restarts; nothing.

I completely disabled all Siri settings, restarted, nothing.

Seems like a bug, and rather obvious one for testers to have found.

Got it; thank you. Was misunderstanding what you had typed. That said, not being able to swipe from left to right on the home screen to get the search is most definitely different on this version and I don't see any discussion of it.