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Do It with Research!" A search engine will index its title as such even though the actual title of the document is "Find a Statute by Its Popular Name, or Finding the Interstate Commerce Act. ancestor search Missing windows files. " A search engine cannot understand this subtle difference. A potentially productive research strategy begins with the identification of possible sources of information. You seek the Interstate Commerce Act, a federal statute. ancestor search Missing windows files. You want the United States Code, or possibly, the Web site of the federal agency that is responsible for implementing the various requirements of the Act. Both Cornell and the House of Representatives offer the United States Code. Normally, I would suggest that you use Cornell's useful Table of Popular Names. ancestor search Canadian job search. But this finding aid does not contain a link to the Interstate Commerce Act. And unless you know that the Act appears in Title 49, Transportation, and limit your search accordingly, your query for the statute by its title will generate almost 14,000 hits. Of course, if you are willing to shortcut the time you spend on this research by using a commercial service, I suggest Lexis or Westlaw. Both allow you to purchase what you need by credit card even if you are not a subscriber. On the other hand, if you have the time, you can find what you need at no cost. When a query generates too many hits -- but the research demands the use of a search engine -- I suggest you try a utility like Google that focuses on relevancy. Netscape users may simply enter "interstate commerce act" without quotations in the address line of their browser. This calls on Google to perform a search on the phrase. Internet Explorer users may also enter the phrase in the address line of their browser, but the command calls on MSN Search instead. Both engines prove helpful using this technique as both retrieve links to encyclopedia articles on the Act. When I applied this technique using Internet Explorer, the first link it returned led me to the Microsoft Encarta article on the Act. The article informs that the first enactment of the Interstate Commerce Act created the Interstate Commerce Commission (now abolished). Remember that I suggested the federal agency responsible for the Act might be a potential source of the Act? With that in mind, I followed the Encarta article's suggested reference for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The link leads to another Encarta article on the Commission. Here I learn that Congress abolished the Commission during 1995. The Surface Transportation Board of the Department of Transportation now "perform[s] the small number of regulatory tasks" previously conducted by the ICC. To connect to the Web site of the Department of Transportation, I guess (correctly) its domain: dot. gov. Had I guessed incorrectly, I would have connected to the U. S. Federal Government Agencies Directory to locate it. A link to the Surface Transportation Board appears on the home page. I follow it to find another link to the Board's publications.
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