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501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google®, Amazon®, eBay® and More
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by Michael Miller
Sales Rank: 1420357
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List Price: $24.99
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Wiley February 13, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076455901X
ISBN-13: 978-0764559013
Product Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
“…there are some interesting tips to be had…” (PC Utilities, July 2004)
Product Description
- Shows Internet users how to get the most out of Internet searches, portals, and commerce sites
- Covers using Google to solve mathematical equations, making search engines safe for kids, harnessing the full power of Yahoo!, and getting the best bargains on shopping sites
- Explains how to search for street addresses and phone numbers, stock quotes and other financial information, MP3s and other digital music, computer programs and utilities, medical information, legal information, genealogical information, job listings, and more
- Reveals the secrets behind directory sites, indexing, and search result rankings
Customer Reviews & Comments
There seems to be something akin to a credentials push between O'Reilly and Wiley. O'Reilly has a series of Hacks books, with 100 tips in each. Is that why we have this book, with 501 web "secrets"? One upsmanship? Firstly, the secrets in the title is hype. None of the tips can really be called a secret. While Miller does admit this in his Introduction, it is irritating to see each tip labelled as a secret, throughout the book. But let's leave this aside and look at the tips. Many are really obvious. Like tip 224 - "Fine tune your search with AltaVista's advanced Web Search page". People, the Altavista home page has an 'advanced' link right there. Or look at tip 27 - "Use Yahoo to get the latest news, weather and sports". Again, these links are right there on the Yahoo home page. Plus, the headlines of recent new articles are also shown on the page, as an inducement for readers to clickthrough. These 501 tips are quantity stressed over quality. Many are stunningly obvious, like those above. And if we say "secrets", then they become inane. A far better approach would have been to reduce the number of tips, and give more detail on some truly innovative and nonobvious usages of the major websites. It would have required far more work and originality than evidenced here.
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501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google®, Amazon®, eBay® and More
List Price: $24.99
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Price: $24.99
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