A search of online or offline resources requires knowledge that is available via a search.  A search embodies a concept-idea conveyed by the search query as part of a contextual, systematic strategem. The defect of any query is that the concept-idea used within the search query may not have been similarly structured; it will thus not be found; it is like a query in one syntax into a context, syntax that has not made such a query in such a form.

• DeFine:  Start with a Concept: consider the words and meanings, consider their relations.  Consider their grouping into a Query Sentence, a statement of purpose.  Explore how the words, word-clusters, and their meanings are used within a knowledge domain; consider that a new definitions is required, consider that prevailing useage in misleading or not specific.  A Glossary or Encylopedic resource assists in the network of word interrelations.  Consider that your concept view differs from other, existing concept views; consider how to relate or interface these differences so that an inter-communication can exist.
• DeLimit:  Consider both the clustering and grouping of idea themes: as series-chaining relations and as hierarchial, stratified relations.
• Associate:  Associate and Organize theme relations:  imbedded, series, and strata-hierarchy.
• Analysis:  Consider each feature of the search again, the nomenclature, the syntax, and context of its use. Consider if the search is advancing toward an answer or is becoming an exercise in toolcraft. Consider that a completely new paradigm of analysis may be required: biotissues to bio-energetics to probable energy conduits.