Help Menu in Finder

I am a new Mac user. So far I am very pleased. The Help section of finder does not seem to function. When asking a question, it searches and searches with not result. Clicking on on of the items on the home part of help does not produce results either.

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25667
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