Help With 'Help', Love the Site, but Hate the 'Search' and 'Help' functi Options

[rascobo]

Tonight I tried to enter a search for a topic/post I remember reading,entered the term hit 'Go' and received 23 pages of unrelated topics. Thinking perhaps I needed to tie the words together somehow, I then pressed 'Help", which just reloaded the current page. Tried repeatedly w/ same results. I'm not asking anyone to tell me how to do it, just why is the info on how to best use the site either unavailable or so difficult to access. I've read several post on this topic in the past, yet nothing ever seems to happen, except members posting a request for help in finding something are scolded for not using these very same functions.
Seems the addition of a page defining each function and how to use it would resolve this issue, or am I just (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead horse.gif) ?

[RJMII]

What search function? (rhetorical question... it blows. it's the way the software is written. no everyone knows SQL query structures, not everyone gets good results)

Typically if you can't find it in the first three or five pages in the garage, just ask again.

ie "Will these wheels fit?" is a good one that people here will answer again and again.

"Where do I get such and such..." (the answers are usually links to a member vender (speaker pods: James/morph; exhaust, fuel lines: Tangerine racing/Chris; brake parts, 5 lug conversions: Eric Shea/PMB), someone who participates a lot here (typeIV store: Jake Raby; Pelican Parts: Dave Darling) or a favorite place that everone likes to go (HPH, GPR... list could go on)

"How do I fix door handle..." send it to Paul... "how do I rebuild a caliper..." follow the link in Eric's sig "how do I bond Carbon Fiber to Aluminum..." no one really knows, but they'll sure give some interesting answers anyway.

and the doozy:
"What's it take to rebuild a type IV..." that one is ALWAYS within the first 5 pages. LMAO

my $.02^3+5%

EDIT:
*nevermind. I just read a couple of posts that instead of answering the question or helping with links "use the search function" was there multiple times.*