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October 11, 2008    DOL Home > Search / A to Z Index > Search Help > Simple Searches   

Simple Searches

Simple searches are queries that consist of a single word or phrase.

Examples of Simple Searches

Click on a search term to find a more detailed explanation.

Search Term

Finds Pages That Contain…

mines

The word mines, Mines, and MINES

"mine"

The word mine

"Q&A"

The strings Q&A, Q & A, and Q + A (always enclose words like S&L in double quotation marks)

small business

The words small and business

compliance, lawmaking

Either the words compliance and/or lawmaking

Employment Standards Administration

The string Employment Standards Administration but not employment, Employment, standards, Standards, employment standards. A strong of campitalized words is assumed to be a name and searched for as a phrase

"repetitive stress injury"

The phrase repetitive stress injury

fid*

Words beginning with the string fid

fl*ss

Words beginning with fl and ending with ss

What is BLS?

Natural language search for the word BLS



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