The 30 Sea Grant programs maintain over 35,000 pages of resource materials on the web (complete list of sites). To search all these sites at the same time, use the Sea Grant Network search button. To limit your search to the National Sea Grant Office web site, use the National Sea Grant Office search button. Learn more about searching this site.
Searching with Search.Blossom is easy. It performs powerful searches without requiring special operators or punctuation. Here are a few points to keep in mind:
The case of letters doesn't matter
All searches are case insensitive. This means you don't have to know whether a word is capitalized or not, or whether it is a title in all caps. For example, searching for "help" will match both "help" and "Help".
Each word is treated as a prefix
A word on a Web page will match your search string if it begins with the same letters. Thus, "bread" matches "bread", "breads", "breaded", "breading", and "breadth". (If you check the "match exact words only" checkbox, then the whole word must match your string--that is, "bread" will only match "bread".)
Words in a phrase must be near one another
When you enter more than one word to search for, Web pages will be selected only if all the words you enter appear close to one another, typically in the same sentence or paragraph. Notice that this is different from most Web searches, where pages are chosen if the words appear anywhere on a page.
The order of words in a phrase doesn't matter
If you enter more than one word, they will match a Web page if the same words appear near one another in any order. For example, "Mount Everest" will match "Mount Everest", "Everest Mountain", and "that awesome mountain, the great Everest".
Common words and short numbers are ignored
Some words appear so commonly on Web pages that the search engine ignores them. In addition, words shorter than three letters are ignored.
