- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0078824354
- ISBN-13: 978-0078824357
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,095,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the AltaVista search engine. AltaVista is an Internet-based search service from Digital that provides access to the largest Web index: 31 million pages found on 628,000 servers (1,158,000 hostnames), and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet newsgroups. Using Digital technologies, pages on the Web are searched, sorted by occurrence of key words, indexes and stored on Digital's server, so that when users enter a word - a term, name, concept, product - AltaVista queries its indexes and reports back everywhere the word or term looked for can be found at that moment. AltaVista is accessed 31 million times per weekday, and provides the searching power behind many of the leading search services, including Yahoo, CNET's Search.com, 100 Hot Websites, LookSmart, LawCrawler, PeekABoo, TechWeb and others. Eric and Deborah Ray are co-authors of "Dummies 101: HTML", "Approach 97 for Windows for Dummies" and "Netscape Composer for Dummies".
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Changes notwithstanding, we still like it
Trying to keep up with constant changes (happening in Internet time to boot) is a challenge at best. Doing that while providing substantive information about how a service like AltaVista really works is an even bigger challenge.
Trying to keep up with constant changes (happening in Internet time to boot) is a challenge at best. Doing that while providing substantive information about how a service like AltaVista really works is an even bigger challenge.
Looking back at this book and the changes in the interface over the past six months, we're remarkably pleased with how accurate and timely the information remains--the basics of how to search effectively, how to use the additional features well, and (our favorite) the story of how AltaVista came to be provide the kind of information that we look for in books we buy.
We hope you enjoy the book.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is very cool for people that are both new to the web as well as for those that have been on for like four years now. There are definitly things in it that will teach everyone something cool and useful about the web. You will be a far better web searcher and sufer after reading this--I keeep it close to my PC!
Format:Paperback
I loved the first edition of this good book. It made me a better searcher with AltaVista, which is what it's designed to do.
The section on searches one can make with structural elements in the URL makes the book worthwhile, but all of that is handled in a single chapter.
Why anyone would need Appendices on the most common words searched on AV, the frequency of words used in AV searches, or a sample of 1,000 queries is beyond me. The same goes with the chapter on the history of AltaVista. The subtitle is "How to find anything on the Internet." Nobody is buying a history of AltaVista.
As good as the early pages are, the book runs out of gas about halfway through and loses itself in a lot of padding.
I'd think twice about going for the second edition because I'm suspicious it's just more padding and that the essential stuff hasn't changed much. If you don't have the first edition, however, you might find even the first half of the second edition worth the price.
Format:Paperback
Let me say upfront that Alta Vista is my #1 search engine, and part of the reason I purchased this book was to become a better searcher. But the real reason was to optimize the chances of my web site getting Alta Vista hits. The book helped me on both counts--especially pointing out the need for Meta tags in the HTML header (but you won't find meta tags in the index). The development of Alta Vista by Digital makes for good reading, as well as the appendices on search word frequencies. The low point of the book is Ch. 6--106 pages of search examples that are not very interesting. I wish the book had been written with a bit more technical detail and much less filler. Given the book's low price, I would still rate it a good value.
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