M. Adam Davis <stienman <at> gmail.com> writes:
> All I see is that if you search for terms that are only used in
> academic papers, then all you'll get are the associated academic
> papers, which are often locked behind 'for pay' interfaces.

Thanks for answering, I was looking for the term in general. The term I was
looking for does sound academic because it has no other name. However it has
been known since the 1960s at the latest. I don't think that it's normal for
papers going back to the 1960s to be locked up behind $pay schemes. Most other
papers from the period aren't.
 
> If you're looking for academic papers, don't expect them to come
> easily or free - go visit your local college though, and you may find
> an easier free way to read them.

That is not an option for a variety of reasons for me.
 
> If you're not looking for academic papers you might revise your terms
> to the practical areas of the topic, rather than the theoretical or
> experimental areas.

I wish I could. Still, I think that getting two solid first pages of Google $pay
non-ads on simple terms that have existed since the 1960s is gross as search
engines go, and in any case this represents a watershed for me. I don't know yet
what to do about it.

And, I was not trying to point out anything besides what I wrote. I think that I
am a little shocked by the jump from 1-2 $pay non-ads in the 1st 2 Google
response pages for usual searches to this whopping >90%.

Peter P.
 

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