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Thanks very much to Effen for pointing out a problem with the message boards search engine, which now has been fixed.

The search engine was ignoring 3-letter words, such as "HCE". It was paying attention to words of 4 or more letters, but the 3-letter words got the cold shoulder.

Words of only 1 or 2 letters continue to be disregarded, though, because they would cause the search engine to bog down.

Another technique is to use Google. You can focus all of Google's processing firepower onto the message boards by including the phrase "site:benefitslink.com/boards" (but without the quotation marks) as part of the query you enter at google.com (or in your browser's Google search bar, etc.). For example, to see topics that contain messages about the HCE compensation limit, type this into the box at http://google.com:

HCE compensation limit site:benefitslink.com/boards

(Note how no blank space appears between site: and benefitslink.com, and no blank space appears between benefitslink.com and /boards.)

You might want to bookmark this page:

www.google.com/?q=site:benefitslink.com/boards

which will pre-fill the box with the magic site string. You'd then add your desired word or words into the box before clicking the Google Search button.

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