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The search box at the bottom of the page is our current recommendation for searching this site.
There's only one search box because when we use Google, their Terms of Service prohibit others.

Or use these links instead:

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Our recommendation changes periodically based on testing and evaluating how the search engines are indexing and ranking pages from this site only. Positive factors:

1. Returns the most complete and accurate results for this site's pages.
2. Directs people to pages relevant to what they searched for.
3. Correctly gives our important pages high rankings and our trivial pages low rankings.
4. Returns our pages for queries initiated from within, not only from outside, the U.S. market.
5. Is where our visitors are coming from, so what they see is familiar.
6. Brings visitors who seem interested because they read for a long time or view many pages.
7. Other factors not mentioned, to make our selection process a "secret algorithm". 
8. A randomization factor to encourage people to use more than one search engine and create competition.

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