How do I ask a good question? (It's not like Google)

Ask short, specific questions rather than one long keyword-stuffed sentence. Naming a date, a place, a councillor, or a particular document helps the tool go straight to the right records.

You can't lose by being specific: if a narrow search comes up thin, the tool widens it automatically — simpler wording, then any of the words, then the whole collection. And you can keep a conversation going: ask a follow-up like 'did it have budget implications?' and it remembers your recent answers.