Section 8.1 : Google searches for government documents
I’ll give an outline below (in Section 8.2) of some sources of government 9/11 documents. However, the specific links change fairly frequently so I
think it is probably more useful to start by referring to a couple of useful Google searches.
There are a few tricks that can be used when using Google. Instead of simply searching all websites for a particular term, it is possible to limit
the try to limit the search to websites operated by Government agencies. Most websites operated by Government agencies in the USA include “.gov”
or “.mil” in their url. A Google search can be limited to such websites by including “inurl:mil” or “inurl:gov” within a Google search,
e.g. searching for “inurl:gov 911” or
“inurl:mil 911”.
More keywords can be added if you are looking for documents referring to a particular individual or location etc.
However, a glance at the Google search results above will show that they include non-government websites that include “gov” or “mil” in their
descriptions.
Slightly better is a Google search which seeks results which end with “.gov” or “.mil”. Such a search can be performed by limiting the
search to results from websites with any address ending in “.mil” or “.gov”. This can be done by including “site:*.mil” or
“site:*.gov” within the Google search, e.g. searching for “site:*.gov
9/11” or “ site:*.mil 9/11”.
The same method can be adapted to search for 9/11 documents generated by government agencies outside the USA.
This webpage provides a helpful list of the Internet domain suffix for a long list of
different countries. This helps if you want to do a search for 9/11 documents from an individual country. For example, for material from British
military agencies (including the British Ministry of Defence) do a Google
search for “site:*.mod.uk”, but most of the results found in this way relate to discussion of the political and security implications of
9/11 rather than the events of that day itself.
If you are only interested in documents originating from Government agencies in the USA, a more efficient and effective method is to use
the Google “Government Sites” search function at this webpage. I haven’t seen anyone discuss this
Google search function, but it is quite useful. See, for example, the results for a search for “9/11” performed using the “Search Government
Sites” button on that webpage for
“9/11”.
[edit on 19-12-2008 by IsaacKoi]



