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by salawat 308 days ago
>Then we could just go Google it, and/or skim the Wikipedia page. If you wanted more details you could follow references - which just made it easier to do the first point.

Except at this point, market forces and going whole hog on neural networking and such instead of sticking with just reflective, impartial indexing of the digital medium has made it nigh impossible for technological aid to actually improve your ability to find niche things. Search Engine Optimization, plus the interests in shaping narratives, have made searchability take a plunge. Right now the unpolluted index may as well be a WMD for how hard it is to find/keep operating one.