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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by hyperpallium2 on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:35AM (#27503044)
OP here, a recent one I was thinking of (I don't recall the exact search I used) "bicycle pedals threading" https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+pedals+threading

The top results (including youtubers) gave the right answer, but the wrong reasons. You have to get down to the 5th (Sheldon Brown's) for expertise (it's "precession"). Sheldon passed away a few years ago, and now his site has ads - a limitation of personal websites.

> a "correctly" crafted query (read: the querymy parents would ask, not the query I would ask)

Can you elaborate please; an example?

Maybe you mean a grammatically correct sentence, which good for finding answers on forums, but I'm more interested in an expert's whole site.

Note that correct terminology is half the battle for searching, perhaps much more!

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