1.   Last summer, the artist Mona Hatoum gave a tour of the dark Shaker attic in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, that had been her studio for a month.

2.   The dark attic of the Internet is only infiltrated as far as the very limited capabilities of a particular search engine.

3.   The study used techniques ranging from statistical modeling of air pollutants and computer mapping, to the simple gathering of old dust in dark attics.

4.   Trying to find something on the Internet is a lot like rummaging through countless cardboard boxes in a dark attic.