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) ?