Still More Great Search Tips

Thanks to IEC member Ethan A. Carrier for passing along the following excellent tips for searching the OGE web site:

You can also search DAEOgrams like so:

site:usoge.gov/ethics_guidance/daeograms

or Advisory Opinions like so:

site:usoge.gov/ethics_guidance/opinons

You may have noticed that you get three copies of each DAEOgram or AO because they exist as three types of files (txt, html, and pdf). If you want to avoid getting your results in triplicate, then you can limit what type of files are returned as results by adding:

filetype:txt or filetype:html or filetype:pdf

So, putting it all together, if I wanted to search the OGE Advisory Opinions for information on widely attended gatherings, I might do it like this:

"widely attended gatherings" site:usoge.gov/advisory_opinions filetype:pdf

You'll see that the results include only OGE Advisory Opinions, and only in the PDF filetype. This really is just scratching the surface of Google's search features, but I hope it is helpful!