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Updated 9 September 2026 · 5 min read
How to Research a Topic with AI and Check Sources
Turn a broad question into a research brief, compare original sources and keep uncertainty visible in an AI-assisted answer.
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Mira Calder
Open-source research and verification writer
Mira Calder is a DeepSearch team publishing identity, not an individual employee; the portrait is AI-generated. Guides under this profile turn source-checking, digital-identity, image-research, and public-record workflows into reproducible steps without claiming private-investigator or professional-research credentials.
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Articles by Mira Calder
23 practical guides and field notes on careful public-source research.
Guide02
How to Compare Sources with AI and Show Disagreements
Compare original sources, trace repeated claims and separate evidence from interpretation in an AI-assisted research workflow.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 5 min read
Guide03
How to find someone's social media profiles
How to go from a name, username, or email to the public profiles that actually belong to the same person - and how to tell a real match from a coincidence.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 8 min read
Guide04
How to find out who owns an email address
What an email address reveals about its owner, how to read the parts of one, and how to check whether a message really came from who it claims.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 7 min read
Guide05
How to trace a quote to its original source
Trace a quotation through variants, citations, archives, transcripts, and recordings without confusing repetition with proof of authorship.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 9 min read
Guide06
How to preserve and document a web source
Build an auditable web-evidence bundle with URLs, timestamps, contextual captures, archives, file hashes, limitations, and careful citations.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 9 min read
Guide07
How to tell a primary source from a repeated claim
Match each claim to direct evidence, trace citations backward, detect circular repetition, and record what a primary source can and cannot prove.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 9 min read
Blog post08
Why a name is never enough
Namesakes are the main failure in people search. Why DeepSearch will not treat a shared name as proof, and why an incomplete result is the safer one.
Published 15 August 2026 · 7 min read
Blog post09
2.4 million Americans share the surname Smith
The 2010 Census counted 2,442,977 people named Smith. What that official table means for a people-search match.
Published 15 August 2026 · 11 min read
Guide10
How to write a useful DeepSearch query
Choose the right lookup mode, format identifiers cleanly, add only useful context, and write bounded research questions that can be verified.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide11
How to search common names without mixing people
Keep namesakes separate, use stable public anchors, compare candidates consistently, and stop identity merges when evidence conflicts.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 7 min read
Guide12
How to verify a DeepSearch result using its sources
Check a DeepSearch claim against its linked source, confirm the subject and date, test independent corroboration, and record a verdict.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide13
Which DeepSearch lookup type should you use?
Choose between name, username, email, phone, image, photo-location, company, VIN, and research modes without overclaiming.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide14
How to find the original source of a photo or video
Trace a photo or video through copies, crops, keyframes, dates, and archives without mistaking the first search result for the original.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide15
How to find someone with incomplete information
Turn partial clues into a careful public-source search, keep namesakes separate, and stop before a possible match becomes a false identification.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 9 min read
Guide16
How to find the earliest version of a web page
Find a page's earliest archived state, test URL variants and redirects, and separate the first capture found from the true publication date.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide17
How to search public records without confusing people
Search official records without merging namesakes: compare dated identity anchors, preserve record provenance, and report ambiguity clearly.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 9 min read
Guide18
How to fact-check a viral image
Test a viral image's origin, edits, date, location, source account, and caption without treating visual oddities or missing metadata as proof.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide19
How to verify dates, locations, and timelines
Separate event, capture, upload, publish, update, and archive times; normalize timezones; and test whether a multi-source timeline is possible.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 9 min read
Guide20
What “no evidence” means - and why it is not the same as “false”
Interpret an empty search honestly by testing expected evidence, coverage, detectability, retention, contradiction, and the limits of the source.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Guide21
A reproducible fact-check template
Copy a practical claim card, preservation record, evidence log, source analysis, verdict framework, review gate, and visible correction record.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 10 min read
Guide22
What a VIN tells you - and what it doesn't
How to read all 17 characters, where to decode one free, and why mileage, accidents and ownership are not in the number at all.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 5 min read
Guide23
How to work out where a photo was taken
Why photo metadata is usually gone, how to read location from the image itself, and the cases where no honest answer is possible.
Updated 14 August 2026 · 6 min read
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