Our Search page can help you find documents on our site. If you are looking for information outside ECSI's site, please try AltaVista or Yahoo!.
The search form asks for two inputs. First a list of words you would like a document to contain. Second, how many documents would you like listed on each page. By default, twenty-five matches are listed on each page. The more matches, the longer the page will take to load. The fewer matches, the more pages you will have to look at.
The field "Search for" can accept more complex searches than just one word. You can put "and", "or" and "not" between words. This will frequently help to narrow your search.
For example, you could try the following regulations not postal. This will show all pages with the word regulation which do not contain the word postal. You could also try regulations and postal which will only display pages where both words appear.
The examples above will match on only the word regulations. The word regulation (notice the missing plural) will not match. To avoid problems with word endings (-ing, -s, -es, -ed, etc), use the wildcard character * (asterisk). This will match the first part of a word and show all matches. Using the above example, your search could have been regulat* and post*. This would match regulation, regulated, postal, post office, etc. Unfortunately it may also match some words you didn't expect such as postpone.
By carefully combining words, wildcards and the conjunctions (and,or,not), you can quickly focus on the information you need.
Our search engine (IDKSM) is provided by Miracle Concepts (http://www.miraclec.com). IDKSM stands for "I Don't Know, Search Me. Special thanks to Michael Hess who assisted us in installing and customizing the search engine to meet our needs.