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Search BasicsThe following Search Tips are a guide to using the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment website search system to find the aerospace information you need. The guide starts with an overview of searching and moves from simple searches using a single word or phrase to more complicated searches. Use the many examples as an aid to formulating your own searches.Quick TipsFor more information, click the link in the following quick tips:
What Is a Search?A search is the organized pursuit of information. Somewhere in a collection of documents, email messages, Web pages, and other sources, there is information that you want to find, but you have no idea where it is. The search system gives you the means of finding that information.You conduct a search by issuing a query, which is simply a way of asking a question that will find the information you are looking for. Searching is often an iterative process. You submit a query and if the results list does not contain the information you are looking for, you modify the query until you locate a page that contains the answer. Tools for SearchingThe search system provides the following tools to help you find what you are looking for:
The relevance of a document is based on how many of the search terms are present in the document, how frequently the search terms occur, and how close the search terms are to each other. |
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