Monthly web research — you devise 20+ new search queries (manual, no scraping)

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**Title:** Monthly manual Google research — minimum 20 self-devised queries (NO automation) --- **IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING** **Do NOT run any searches or do any work before we have an agreed contract.** I will not pay for work done in advance, and unsolicited results will not change my decision. Proposals that arrive with pre-collected data attached will be rejected. At this stage I am collecting proposals and answers only. --- **The topic** How to get a page or an entire website removed from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This is a personal research project — I'm building a collection of every published guide on this one narrow subject. **What makes this job different** I am **not** giving you a fixed keyword list to repeat every month. That would just return the same results over and over. Instead, I want you to **come up with new, relevant search queries yourself each month — a minimum of 20 per month**, all different from the previous months. New wordings, new angles, related terminology, different phrasings of the same problem. More than 20 is welcome; fewer than 20 is not acceptable. For the first month I can give you a few examples to show the direction, but from then on the queries should be your own thinking. **The monthly work** 1. Devise **at least 20 new search queries** relevant to the topic — all different from previous months. 20 is the minimum, not a target. 2. Run each one on Google using an exact URL format I provide, paging through results up to page 15 3. Record every result: query used, page number, position, title, URL, publication date 4. **Send me the list of queries you used**, so I can see the reasoning and avoid overlap next month 5. Send the spreadsheet **Requirements** - A free VPN set to Finland while working (I'll explain the setup) - Use my exact URL format; for pages 2 onwards click Google's own "Next" button rather than editing the URL - **Manual browsing only.** No scraping, no scripts, no automated tools, no macros. I have tried automation and it causes problems. If you propose automation, I will not respond. - Enough curiosity to think of query angles I haven't — that's the real value here **Scope** Minimum 20 queries per month, each paged through to page 15. Roughly 3–5 hours per month depending on how many queries you devise. Ongoing, monthly. --- **In your proposal, please answer:** 1. Are you comfortable with a purely manual task? 2. **Give me three example search queries you would use for this topic** — this is the main thing I'm assessing 3. Can you commit to **at least 20 new queries every month**, without repeating earlier ones? How would you keep track of what you've already used? 4. Your hourly rate, and your time estimate per month 5. Can you use a free VPN set to Finland? 6. Can you also search in other languages — Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean? (Useful, not essential.) Proposals that don't answer these will not be considered. Questions 2 and 3 matter most. **Once more: no searching or collecting at this stage. I do not pay for advance work.**

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  • 1-3 months
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Data Entry
Online Research
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Member since Jul 25, 2026
  • Finland
    3:06 AM

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