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Search engines are clever.
But they're not as clever at understanding your requests as a person would be, so you will need to be very particular about how you ask it to find things. It's tempting to assume that it understands requests written in plain English, but unfortunately its vocabulary is far too limited for this. Online to reports which are two years old or less. Online and the internet go to our full search page.