Let me refer you to part of my post you seem to have missed:
> The google scholar results aren't helpful because the relevant literature is too old to be indexed, the trail of scientific discovery is too difficult to quickly and correctly follow, and/or it's in german (with shit OCR so google translate doesn't work).
> Use a specialty site
I happen to know the specialty sites that contain the information I'm after. You know what form it comes in? Scanned PDFs with poor OCR behind a paywall that I can get through by forking up $100 or by going to the library.
I have no way of proving to you that I'm a competent search-term picker, but do you really find it implausible that certain domains of human knowledge are poorly indexed and difficult to search using plain text?
> The google scholar results aren't helpful because the relevant literature is too old to be indexed, the trail of scientific discovery is too difficult to quickly and correctly follow, and/or it's in german (with shit OCR so google translate doesn't work).
> Use a specialty site
I happen to know the specialty sites that contain the information I'm after. You know what form it comes in? Scanned PDFs with poor OCR behind a paywall that I can get through by forking up $100 or by going to the library.
I have no way of proving to you that I'm a competent search-term picker, but do you really find it implausible that certain domains of human knowledge are poorly indexed and difficult to search using plain text?