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Easy Google (Easy)
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by Shelley O'Hara
Sales Rank: 2324001
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$0.01
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Que March 21, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789731045
ISBN-13: 978-0789731043
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 8 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Product Description
With the Web at 6 billion pages and growing, information online is not stored or organized in any logical fashion. The Internet itself is not run or managed by any central organization. There are more than 200 separate search engines and directories on the Internet. If you go by usage trends, however, you end up with only one real standout. Google is the most popular search engine available today representing 75% of all searches. Google offers a huge search index, highly relevant search results, extremely fast searches, and a variety of specialty searches. Some of the specialty searches allow you to search via images (search for pictures and graphics) groups (search the Internet¿s newsgroup archives) directory (provides hand-picked results from the Open Directory) and news (gathers the top news, sports, business entertainment and heath stories).
About The Author
Shelley O'Hara is the author of more than 100 books, including the best-selling Easy Windows and other top-selling titles. She has also authored a novel (The Marriage Trifecta), Web content, training materials, magazine columns, software manuals, and business and marketing materials. In addition to writing, O'Hara teaches training and personal development classes in Indianapolis. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. and the University of Maryland with an M.A., both in English.
Customer Reviews & Comments
A pretty, visual book. Each page has full colour screen shots of Google's pages. You might wonder at first, why? Don't you just use its main page? Well, that is the very point of this book. O'Hara shows how you can gain far more from Google. For example, the Directory Pages gives a top down format for data searching that mimics Yahoo's directories, that originally shot Yahoo to fame on the Internet. Plus, there is Google news. These are near real time news feeds from news organisations all over the world. Its greatest merit may be to expose you to alternative viewpoints; instead of just your regular newspapers. But potentially the most useful portion of the book concerns the advanced search options. Many never avail themselves of these. Which is a pity. The book shows a good understanding can be a tremendous force multiplier to your web searching. Well worth spending some time getting acquainted and facile with these options.
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Easy Google (Easy)
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