Thanks for defending me, but I didn't really see what he said as "bashing" and I hoped the fight (if there was one) had already ended and we were back to being constructive.

Hopefully your post will be read mainly as constructive suggestions on how to get more from search.

For my part, I wouldn't have landed so hard on the lack of searching if the question had been posted in just one place. The experts who know the answers read most of those places so asking in any one place is enough. Future users who find the question by a search may get the wrong impression from multiple threads where it wasn't answered and fail to see the one where it was.