The Office of General Counsel web site uses a Google search engine. Just type a few words or phrases in the search box and hit go. Use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek.
Search by typing words and phrases.
counsel staff legal
Google will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible. Results are ranked so that the most relevant documents are presented first. Most relevant documents are documents that match the greatest number of your search terms.
Google returns relevant results even if they don't contain all query terms. Documents that contain some (or only one) of your search terms will have a lower relevance.
Identify phrases with quotation marks, separate with commas.
staff, "general counsel", Nancy Tribbensee
A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.
Use UPPER case to indicate exact match.
legal, briefs, "General Counsel"
Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case. Otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example, "legal" will find matches for "legal", "Legal", and "LEGAL".
It's easy to refine a query to get precisely the results you want. Try these techniques to narrow your search results.
Identify a phrase.
Before: general counsel briefs
After: "general counsel" briefs
The before query is ambiguous. Identifying a phrase makes the search clearer. This is the most powerful query refinement technique.
Add a discriminating word or a phrase.
Before: faq,
"General Counsel"
After: faq, "General Counsel",
insurance
Adding the search term "insurance" makes the query more specifc. You'll get more total matches (because the query is broadened with an additional term), but the relevance ranking will more reliable.
Capitalize when appropriate.
Before: asu, "nancy tribbensee"
After: ASU, "Nancy Tribbensee"
Capitalization reduces the ambiguity of the term asu. Be sure to place a comma between unrelated capitalized words, since Google treats adjacent capitalized words as if they formed a single phrase. It is always a good idea to capitalize proper names.
Use a require or reject operator (+,-).
Before: "international business"
After: "international business" +cultural
-technology
Using a reject operator (the "minus" sign) in front of a search term will exclude pages with that search term from the results.
Using a require operator (the "plus" sign) ensures that all documents the in results list will include that term.
If you still aren't finding the information you want, try reading the pages at the Google help page. You could also try using different search terms, reordering your search terms, or using a different search engine. Not every search engine is able to completely index the WWW, so using a different search engine may yield different results.