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-sellingGoogle Hackstitle, theGoogle Pocket Guideprovides exactly the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start. TheGoogle Pocket Guideunleashes 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 Guidewill 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.
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