Simple Search results limiting not working

Question

The search is working fine however the search results are not being limited. Any ideas?

    {exp:search:simple_form 
        channel="about|approach|blog|job-ads|solutions|who_we_help" 
        search_in="entries"
        results="3"
        result_page="search" 
        no_result_page="search/no_results"
    }
        <input type="hidden" name="XID" value="{XID_HASH}" />
        <input id="keywords" name="keywords" placeholder="TYPE AND PRESS ENTER" type="text">
    {/exp:search:simple_form}

Answer 1

I've just tried and everything looks fine to me. The only thing I can think of that was different in my code is the results_page parameter, I've got search/results instead of just search.

My code:

{exp:search:simple_form
    channel="my|channels"
    search_in="entries"
    results="3"
    result_page="search/results" 
    no_result_page="search/no_results"
  }

Maybe if you change your's to search/index?

Answer 2

If you can't add a limit= parameter, you can inside your {exp:search:search_results} tag limit by count:

{exp:search:search_results}
  {if count <= 3}
    {title}
  {/if}
{/exp:search:search_results}