Beneath its deceptively simple search form, Google is a remarkably powerful and flexible search engine that indexes billions of web pages, handling more than 150 million searches a day. You know that what you're looking for must be in there somewhere, but how do you make Google work for you?
Crafted from our best-selling Google Hacks title, the Google Pocket Guide provides exactly the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start. The Google Pocket Guide unleashes the power behind that blinking cursor by delivering:
A thorough but concise tour of Google's features
Practical examples to inspire going beyond the basic keyword search
Secrets for constructing more powerful queries using Google's special syntax
Advice on how to understand and further refine the results Google provides
Whether you're a student researching a topic for class, a medical or legal professional needing field-specific reference information, or a home user looking for that article on home repair you forgot to bookmark, the Google Pocket Guide will take you from mystified to mastery.
Tara Calishain is the creator of the site, ResearchBuzz. She is an expert on Internet search engines and how they can be used effectively in business situations.
Rael Dornfest is a Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog.
DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler are pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining open source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software. He's the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber book, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.
I was able to use the book to see how I can be able to use Google searching beyond just typing in the search box and get all these results. I know that the Appendix is what I like and it provides all the searches that were in the book in the back for me to refer to when needed.
I could not understand the Julian dates.
10/12/2003
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
4.0
Google Pocket Guide Review
By Shawn Carroll
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Comments about oreilly Google Pocket Guide:
Continuing with O'Reilly's Pocket Guide series, this book gives
you all the information about Google in a book sized to fit in a shirt
pocket. Google Pocket Guide gives the reader all the information needed
to search any of the many search options.
Beginning with the basics of internet searching, the reader is led to
deeper and more full search options. Each of Google's search parameters
are discussed, as is how to fine tune your search to narrow down the
results. After the basic search, the reader is introduced to preferences
one can set for session to session searches. Then the reader is
introduced to the several other search engine's Google offers, such as
News, the Directory, and Groups. Each is explained in detail with
specific search options and features.
In all, this is a great guide for using Google to it's fullest. Is the
guide needed by everyone? No, of course not, but would be great for
everyone that doesn't automatically flip every switch and twist every
knob. At $9.95, it's a stocking stuffer for your relative that still
can't find anything on the internet.
7/29/2003
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
5.0
Google Pocket Guide Review
By George Woolley
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Comments about oreilly Google Pocket Guide:
An excellent guide.
If you use the Google Search Engine as a normal user, get this book.
