From: Mark Whitney
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--"CAN YOU FIND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE 6025.13?"

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  We are particularly skilled at quickly scraping hard-to-find documents from among the two billion plus public web pages in just a few short keystrokes. Recently, for example, a subscriber submitted, over our website, a request for Reference Support, wondering if we could locate Department of Defense Directive 6025.13. Even our massive pre-configured drop-down menu system didn't include this little known document and our frustrated client explained that he's been searching for this item online for more than two years.

  Here's the process we deployed:

1. We went to Northernlight - one of the great search engines - http://www.northernlight.com

2. We entered - 6025.13 - as the search term, which returned less than two dozen hits from the more than one billion pages indexed by Northernlight:
See, http://www.northernlight.com/nlquery.fcg?cb=0&qr=6025.13

3.  We scrolled down the first page of results and Hit No. 5 caught our eye since the title of the page said: "Department of Defense" and the brief summary text made reference to 6025.15 (not 6025.13, but certainly close enough to warrant a mouse click)

4.  Clicking Hit No. 5, we were transported to this page:
http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text/i602515p.txt

5. We noted, based on the url structure, that we were definitely trolling deep through the subdirectories of a little known, but publicly available, U.S. Military web server. (Note the ".mil" extension in the root directory which identifies U.S. Military web servers).

6.  We used the Find Function in our browser and jumped to every instance of 6025.13 in the document and noted that while the document had been excerpted on this page - it wasn't the official document we were looking for.

7. We peeled back the url from:
http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text/i602515p.txt to:
http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text
pressed enter and received a message that said: "You are not authorized to view this page"

8. So we again peeled back the url from:
http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text to:
http://web7.whs.osd.mil
and received a message that said the site had been moved to:
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives
We happily noted the word "directives" in the new url and clicked the link.

9. Paydirt. We landed on the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services, Directives and Records Division.

10. From the homepage we clicked the link captioned:
Directives 5000.1 - 8999.99 which took us to this page:
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/dir2.html

11. Again, using the browser's Find Function, we jumped directly to the link for Directive 6025.13, click and landed here:
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html/602513.htm

12. We selected the PDF version, which took us here:
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/d602513_072095/d602513p.pdf


--THE UPSHOT

  After printing the document, we noted the domain from our final destination: http://www.dtic.mil and returning to Northernlight, we entered it as a search term and noticed that the web server we ultimately found had never been indexed by Northernlight. This U.S. military site may well be blocked from indexing robots or it may simply be so new, that Northernlight's spider has not yet crawled the site. No wonder our guy had such a tough time!


--SUMMARY

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