- Paperback: 388 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (19 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072231742
- ISBN-13: 978-0072231748
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #65 in Books > Computers & Internet > Digital Lifestyle > Internet Searching > Google
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Get inside the massive search engine and learn how to make Google's enormous power work for you to find exactly what you need. This book helps you discover what librarians and researchers know and learn the best tactics and strategies for finding information on the Web, using Google search. It includes coverage of little-known Google features, such as the bargain-searching Froogle, a news service, an image search service, and more.
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Go beyond Google's deceptively plain interface to explore the many features of this powerful tool. The new user and the Web-savvy alike will benefit from the many simple and advanced tactics and strategies the authors share for finding information on the Web with Google. Save time with tips to narrow or broaden your Web searches, choose effective search terms, utilize Google search syntax, and understand your search results. Discover useful services such as Images, Answers, Groups, News, Google's bargain-finder Froogle, and much more. And along the way, get fun facts about the company and the people behind Google.
-Find useful information more quickly
-Locate phone numbers, maps, stock information, and get answers to mathematical calculations
-Configure your Web browser to facilitate easier searching
-Filter out sexually explicit content with SafeSearch
-Discover an array of features such as the bargain-finder Froogle, Google News, and Google Images
-Set preferences to specify a search and interface language, the number of search results shown per page, and more
-Learn how the Google search engine works and how new features are created in Google labs
-Use Google's search syntax to narrow your searches
-Formulate questions that get the best results from researchers at Google Answers
About the authors:
Fritz Schneider is a software engineer at Google. He is co-author of JavaScript: The Complete Reference and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego.
Nancy Blachman gives workshops on searching with Google and wrote an online tutorial, Google Guide. She is an author, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where she has taught for eight years.
Eric Fredricksen has been a software engineer at Google for more than three years. He holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University.
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As any one who has read my reviews before will know, I am an avid supporter of the "How to do Everything with "s".. So it will be of no great surprise that I also have good things to say about this publication. Google, has been a bit of an enigma for the past few years, only recently coming to the forefront with a huge stocks and shares debut. Good for them, I missed it. Bummah..
Back to the Google book. If you want to understand some of the finer points of searching the Internet. Finding things you are ACTUALLY looking for, as opposed to getting a huge amount of results that don't really do it for you, then I do recommend this book. Its easy to rubbish any offering of this kind, but when all is said and done, what else can be told about a search engine?
Actually, quite a bit. In this case, you can read through the book and learn all sorts of new things, then use it as a reference guide, which helps you to get into the centre of the items you are looking for.
Beyond this, I cant say much more, the facilities are growing all the time on the Google.com main pages. Tool-bars, Translators, Blog tools, they are all there for the downloading. Do you need them? Well, do we need half of the stuff we download? I am a bit of a download freak and will try most things once.
I do suggest you buy this copy though, it is comprehensive and tells you all about the things you probably didn't know, which is a nice change in itself.
Enjoy
Back to the Google book. If you want to understand some of the finer points of searching the Internet. Finding things you are ACTUALLY looking for, as opposed to getting a huge amount of results that don't really do it for you, then I do recommend this book. Its easy to rubbish any offering of this kind, but when all is said and done, what else can be told about a search engine?
Actually, quite a bit. In this case, you can read through the book and learn all sorts of new things, then use it as a reference guide, which helps you to get into the centre of the items you are looking for.
Beyond this, I cant say much more, the facilities are growing all the time on the Google.com main pages. Tool-bars, Translators, Blog tools, they are all there for the downloading. Do you need them? Well, do we need half of the stuff we download? I am a bit of a download freak and will try most things once.
I do suggest you buy this copy though, it is comprehensive and tells you all about the things you probably didn't know, which is a nice change in itself.
Enjoy
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Perfect Overview of Google
19 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback
Did you know Google can find you best prices, do translations, or even fill out online forms for you?
"How to Do Everything with Google" by Fritz Schneider goes over everything from how to enter a query all the way to configuring your Google toolbar. Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced web browser, Google will help you use Google to it's fullest capability. The book is very friendly. Has plenty of pictures with notes and does not use technical terms. The chapters were straight to the point and kept short.
To nitpick, the book could have shown examples on some advanced topic such as "advanced operators" to give a better understanding of how to use it. This was probably not included to keep the book beginner friendly.
Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone that thinks Google is just another good search engine.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Make the Web Your Own Resource
18 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
Much more than a guide to a user interface, this book increases your internet savvy. Just a few examples: (1) Learn how to browse newsgroups to find the one best suited to your interest; (2) Learn about phonebook and financial information searches; (3) Do unit conversions instantly with Google's calculator. More than anything, this book will make you a more comfortable web searcher. One reading of it is worth hours of experimentation. Go directly to the internet fast lane!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
People's "Primer" for 21st Century
24 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
I completely disagreed with the "know it alls" that trash this book. This is in fact the people's "primer" for the 21st Century. In the industrial era one needed to learn reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Today one needs to know how to find the needle in the haystack. While Google is still in the 4th grade, it will evolve quickly in the next few years, and the Google founders appear well on their way to making all of the world's information available to anyone anywhere. This will itself change the world.
This is a tremendous resource, and I do not consider it outdated because it is still the best available orientation to Google. I do agree that there are online supplements that can update the knowledge in this book and cover emerging capabilities from Google.
Bottom line: Google is central to all our lives now, this book is a useful jump start to anyone who wishes to leverage all of Google, not just the 10% most people see. For advanced IT people, I recommend Stephen Arnold's book, "The Google Legacy," available from Infonortics.co.uk, or at IOP '06 in January 2006.
This is a tremendous resource, and I do not consider it outdated because it is still the best available orientation to Google. I do agree that there are online supplements that can update the knowledge in this book and cover emerging capabilities from Google.
Bottom line: Google is central to all our lives now, this book is a useful jump start to anyone who wishes to leverage all of Google, not just the 10% most people see. For advanced IT people, I recommend Stephen Arnold's book, "The Google Legacy," available from Infonortics.co.uk, or at IOP '06 in January 2006.
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