<p>How to do effective search on Crossvalidated? Or, specific advice for how to search the web for statistics or machine learning?</p>
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<p>The intention is to make a FAQ-style question, for layout we could emulate <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference">this mathjax tutorial</a>. Then additions as new answers, which later can be incorporated (or edited directly if the answerer feels comfortable.)  But for a start, answers could be just for discussion about this FAQ proposal. I start below with a very basic outline.</p>
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<li><p><strong>SE help page for search</strong>: <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/searching">https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/searching</a>   (but I'm not sure if this is fully updated or comprehensive.)</p>
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<li><p><strong>google or other external search engines can also be useful for site search</strong>: copy <code>site:https://stats.stackexchange.com</code> into the search box in your browser, and add your search terms. This will also search in comments, which is left out from SE site search. This is often much faster than site search.</p>
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<p>to be continued!</p>
