Searching We are now going to look at AustLII in some more detail, and will focus on SINO , AustLII's search engine. You should already know The Basics about AustLII . The concordance is an index of words and phrases, linking words to the documents in which they appear.
Full documentation is available at Sino - Yet another search engine for the Web .
SINO was written by Andrew Mowbray, one of AustLII's co-directors. Actually, SINO can be a little more complicated than that, because it understands a special search language , which allows you to conduct fairly complicated and focused search queries. The SINO search language is rather cosmopolitan. If you have used one of the popular on-line legal database systems you probably do not need to learn anything new. In order to give a query to the SINO search engine you must visit one of the AustLII search interfaces.