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Internet Search Tips
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Re: Internet Search Tips
#72Should just link to https://www.gwern.net/Search - the URL works fine, and the IA version has various glitches like the link icons.
Comparing date archived and modification, this was recently updated. Considering the various features the site has, is there a way to compare with older versions (such as is possible in a wiki)?
No, sorry. Ever since I blew through the Github size limits, I haven't found a good static Hakyll-compatible way to present history, especially histories with lots of tiny edits. (As I keep experimenting with new approaches, I have to do lots of mass edits to old pages to update them.)
Re: Internet Search Tips
#73I've seen two links to this domain in as many days and I absolutely can't stand the developer's treatment of links. I can't actually click on them, because just hovering them opens them in some ephemeral pseudo-popup, and I can't read the main article, because scrolling will invariably hover over some link which will then open that popup and cover up the article I was reading. It's absurd to me that this apparently i…
Like on Wikipedia, which we borrowed the design from, popups can be controlled & disabled with the 'gear' icon.
I'm not sure what you mean by "can't actually click on them". Popups are positioned away from the link and do not cover up the original link, which can be clicked on like normal. (You can also click on the obvious thing in the popup, the title, which is a hyperlink to the original.)
The scroll thing is definitely bad, but fixing it is a little difficult. (GreaterWrong solves it by a hybrid of 2 listeners which tries to guess if you are mousing or scrolling instead of just on-hover.) I don't know if/when that will be fixed. In the mean time, I'm boosting the timeout since more than one person has complained about popups being too quick.
Re: Internet Search Tips
#74I've seen two links to this domain in as many days and I absolutely can't stand the developer's treatment of links. I can't actually click on them, because just hovering them opens them in some ephemeral pseudo-popup, and I can't read the main article, because scrolling will invariably hover over some link which will then open that popup and cover up the article I was reading. It's absurd to me that this apparently i…
Like on Wikipedia, which we borrowed the design from, popups can be controlled & disabled with the 'gear' icon. I'm not sure what you mean by "can't actually click on them". Popups are positioned away from the link and do not cover up the original link, which can be clicked on like normal. (You can also click on the obvious thing in the popup, the title, which is a hyperlink to the original.) The scroll thing is defi…
> Popups are positioned away from the link and do not cover up the original link, which can be clicked on like normal. (You can also click on the obvious thing in the popup, the title, which is a hyperlink to the original.)
This was absolutely not the case, at least on my viewport size. FWIW, I also didn't realize about clicking on "the obvious thing in the popup", possibly because this is never a thing that you click on in websites.
> The scroll thing is definitely bad, but fixing it is a little difficult.
What's the motivation for this being a hover effect? Seems like clicking on the link to open it is a pretty well-tested paradigm.
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One big difference between what I saw on your site and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia's are only previews and (AFAICT) feature no internal interactions.
Re: Internet Search Tips
#75Gwern mentions the benefit of being affiliated with a university so you can use ILL (in particular, Illiad). I think it's worth mentioning some ways you can get ILL without having to be a student or professor. (Note that these are not actually going to be practical for most people, but for people who happen to be in the right situation to take advantage of them, they can be quite useful.) 1. Live in New York City. Ye…
I'm not familiar with Illiad but King County Library System[0] in Washington state has excellent interlibrary loans. I have received books from libraries all over the US, Canada, prisons, museums, and even the Library of Congress.
Another option is that some university libraries have a membership program; you can borrow books and place interlibrary loans for an annual fee.
Re: Internet Search Tips
#76Some neat stuff here. Only VERY briefly mentioned (so briefly I missed it at first) however: Substituting Yandex for Google is great for many use cases. Being Russian, Yandex is no doubt heavily censored, but only for things important to Russian politics . Ironically, this means that for non-Russian users, it's considerably LESS censored than Google, which has SEVERELY crippled its search in recent years in the name…
Bing is also significantly less censored, especially for adult content, but also has a smaller index than Google and less operators.
Yeah, heard that is mostly why it still exists.
Re: Internet Search Tips
#77I've seen two links to this domain in as many days and I absolutely can't stand the developer's treatment of links. I can't actually click on them, because just hovering them opens them in some ephemeral pseudo-popup, and I can't read the main article, because scrolling will invariably hover over some link which will then open that popup and cover up the article I was reading. It's absurd to me that this apparently i…
You conveyed exactly what i wanted to say. I don't remember reaching for 'Disable JavaScript' this fast for a website.
Re: Internet Search Tips
#78Some neat stuff here. Only VERY briefly mentioned (so briefly I missed it at first) however: Substituting Yandex for Google is great for many use cases. Being Russian, Yandex is no doubt heavily censored, but only for things important to Russian politics . Ironically, this means that for non-Russian users, it's considerably LESS censored than Google, which has SEVERELY crippled its search in recent years in the name…
Is there something I could self host that would perform aa well as yandex?
Re: Internet Search Tips
#79Some neat stuff here. Only VERY briefly mentioned (so briefly I missed it at first) however: Substituting Yandex for Google is great for many use cases. Being Russian, Yandex is no doubt heavily censored, but only for things important to Russian politics . Ironically, this means that for non-Russian users, it's considerably LESS censored than Google, which has SEVERELY crippled its search in recent years in the name…
"Zero privacy of course." Surely this is not suggesting that Google searches afford any privacy. ;) While it might not be the Russian government who is watching, Google searches are certainly not ephemeral nor free from analysis in real-time. Aside from "things important to Russian politics", I would guess Google on behalf of its customers, who could be anyone, including governments, is far more interested in what so…
In some cases, I can get over 400 results with Google, but never more than 500.