Google Pocket Guide

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Jun 12, 2003 - Computers - 129 pages

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.
 

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Contents

Google Pocket Guide
1
What Can You Do with Google?
5
Asking for What You Want
17
Understanding What You Get
47
Other Google Services and Features
59
Appendix
111
Index
119
Copyright

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Google Pocket Guide
Tara Calishain,Rael Dornfest,DJ Adams
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Tara Calishain,Rael Dornfest,D. J. Adams
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Tara Calishain,Rael Dornfest,D. J. Adams
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2003)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleGoogle Pocket Guide
Pocket References Series
AuthorsTara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, D. J. Adams
Editionillustrated
Publisher"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2003
ISBN0596005504, 9780596005504
Length129 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Computer Science
Computers / Database Administration & Management
Computers / Internet / Content Management Systems
Computers / Internet / General
Computers / Internet / Search Engines
Computers / Internet / Web Programming
Computers / Internet / Web Services & APIs
Computers / Networking / General
Computers / Web / General
  
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