“Internet Search Case Studies”, Gwern2019-09-23 (Internet archiving, CLI, Google, tutorial; backlinks)⁠:

Real-world examples of using advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books.

Appendix to the Internet Search Tips article covering how to search the Internet effectively: >14 case studies of challenging Internet searches drawn from the past 10 years.

I present the problem, and step through the process of finding it, and describe my tacit knowledge and implicit strategies.

These case studies make the prior tips more understandable by showing them off in practice.

• Missing Appendix
• Misremembered Book
• Missing Website
• Speech → Book
• Rowling Quote On Death
• Crowley Quote
• Finding The Right ‘SAGE’
• UK Charity Financials
• Nobel Lineage Research
• Dead URL
• Description But No Citation
• Finding Followups
• How Many Homeless?
• Citation URL With Typo
• Connotations
• Too Narrow
• Try It
• Really, Just Try It
• (Try It!)
• Yes, That Works Too
• Comics
• Beating PDF Passwords
• Lewontin’s Thesis
• Edward Teller’s “Atom Alphabet”
• Pressley Et Al 1989
• Oliver Heaviside

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