The search is random, in other words the pages are found in no particular order. The size of the site is about 300 pages a large number of which are archive material. The pages which are archived are usually dated in the URL. Thus a page with the URL http://read-out.net/sean/n01.02.html brings the searcher to the archived news of February 2001. The URL appears under the title of the page in the search.

Another way of searching the Signpost is to visit the Site Map which is an attempt to show how the site is designed.