Apple Knowledge Base

Being a long time Windows user, I am used to searching the Microsoft/Windows Knowledge Base for answers to technical questions. I can't seem to find a similar site for Apple. I had a problem with the battery, and the Apple tech emailed a comprehensive document to help solve it.
I would love to find a searchable index for these types of issues. Does it exist? Is it available to the user community? Any help wold be appreciated.

As Niel suggests.
You can also use The "Search Discussions" feature but that doesn't directly take you to the k-base articles, it just takes you to discussions posts that may mention them. It's also somewhat idiosyncratic in the results it produces. Most of the power users of this site I suspect use Google.
Then there's also the user tips library, written by other Mac users helping on this site. http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=599

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