How to Do Everything with Google

by Fritz Schneider (Conducted by)

Overview

Helps you discover what librarians and researchers know and learn the best tactics and strategies for finding information on the Web, using Google search. This book includes coverage of little-known Google features, such as the bargain-searching Froogle, a news service, an image search service, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072231748
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	11/19/2003
Series:	How to Do Everything Series
Pages:	361
Product dimensions:	7.34(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.93(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xvii
Part I	Google Web Search
Chapter 1	Welcome to Google	3
	Google	4
	The Google Interface	5
	Google Doodles	7
	The Google Doodler	7
	Google's Services	8
	Essential Google Facts	9
	What Google Is Not	11
	A Brief History of Google	13
Chapter 2	Craft Your Searches	15
	How to Enter a Query	16
	Go Directly to the First Result	17
	Select Search Terms	19
	Use Words Likely to Appear on the Pages You Want	19
	Pose Answerable Queries	21
	Be Brief	21
	Search Behavior	22
	Implicit AND	22
	Common Word Exclusion	22
	Case Insensitivity	25
	Punctuation Exclusion	26
	Search Term Order and Proximity	26
	Search Operators	27
	Quotes	27
	The OR Operator	30
	The Inclusion Operator (+)	32
	The Exclusion Operator (-)	32
	The Synonym Operator ([similar])	35
	Common Misconceptions	37
Chapter 3	Find Specialized Information	41
	Correct Spelling	42
	Word Definitions	45
	Phone Numbers and Addresses	46
	Reverse Lookups	47
	Street Maps and Directions	49
	Stock Quotes	51
	Calculator	52
	Basic Arithmetic	53
	Advanced Math	54
	Units of Measure and Conversions	57
Chapter 4	Understand Search Results	61
	The Anatomy of a Results Page	62
	Search Tools and Information	62
	Search Boxes	64
	Links to Tools and Tips	64
	Search Tabs	66
	The Statistics Bar	66
	Web Search Results	67
	The Result Link	68
	Snippets	68
	Technical Information	71
	Cached Version of the Result	71
	The Similar Pages Link	74
	Categories and Description	74
	The Translate This Page Link	74
	File Type Conversion	77
	Many Results from a Single Site	79
	Go Beyond the First Page of Results	79
	Omitted Results	82
	Other Kinds of Search Results	82
	Sponsored Links (Paid Advertisements)	83
	Evaluate What You Find	86
	Credibility	87
	Types of Results	88
Chapter 5	Advanced Web Search	95
	Use the Advanced Search Form	96
	Advanced Operators	96
	Group or Exclude Terms	97
	Search Restrictions	100
	Find Information on Specific Pages	109
	Search by Topic	114
	Advanced Operators Rehashed	116
	define	116
	stocks	116
	phonebook	116
	Summary of the Advanced Operators	118
	Language Tools	119
	Refine a Query	124
Chapter 6	Make Searching Easier with Google Tools	131
	Make Google Your Home Page	132
	The Google Toolbar	134
	Default Search	144
	Browser Buttons	146
	Mozilla and Netscape 6	147
	Search Google on Macintosh Systems	148
Chapter 7	Configure Google	151
	Setting Preferences	152
	Resetting Preferences	154
	Language Settings	155
	Interface Language	155
	Search Language	161
	Safe Search	163
	Number of Results	165
	New Results Window	166
Part II	Google Features
Chapter 8	Search News Sources with Google News	169
	Google News	170
	Browse Google News	174
	News Stories	175
	News Categories	177
	Search Google News	179
	Search Techniques for Google News	180
	Possible Uses	190
	Limitations of Google News	191
	International Google News Domains	191
Chapter 9	Search Discussion Forums with Google Groups	193
	Usenet	194
	The Usenet Hierarchy	195
	Google Groups	198
	Browse Google Groups	201
	Find Newsgroups	201
	Read Newsgroup Messages	204
	Post Newsgroup Messages	210
	Search Google Groups	211
	Select Search Terms	214
	Advanced Groups Search	214
	Possible Uses	219
	Participate in Discussions	219
	Mining Usenet	219
	Post a Question	220
Chapter 10	Find Pictures with Google Images	223
	Search Google Images	224
	Google Images Results	225
	Image Viewer Interface	227
	Craft Image Search Queries	229
	Advanced Image Search	232
	Copyrights	239
Chapter 11	Browse Topics by Category with the Google Directory	243
	The Open Directory	245
	The Google Directory	245
	Categories	247
	Browsing the Google Directory	249
	Searching the Google Directory	253
	Directory Search Quality	254
	Possible Uses	255
	Google Directory in Non-English Languages	256
Chapter 12	Ask Researchers Questions with Google Answers	259
	How It Works	260
	Who Are the Researchers?	261
	Tour of Google Answers	263
	Search Google Answers	265
	Browse Google Answers	267
	Anatomy of the Question View	271
	Ask a Question	273
	Sign Up for an Account	273
	Pose a Question	276
	After You Post a Question	283
	Unanswered Questions	286
	Unsatisfactory Answers	287
	Possible Uses for Google Answers	288
	Is Google Answers Effective?	291
	Limitations of Google Answers	292
Chapter 13	Find Bargains with Froogle	295
	Introducing Froogle	296
	Browse Products	298
	Lists of Products	298
	Individual Products	301
	Search Froogle	303
	Select Search Terms	303
	Refine Your Query	303
	Possible Uses	308
Chapter 14	Other Cool Features	309
	Google Zeitgeist	310
	Google Labs	313
	Search by Location	315
	Google News Alerts	316
	Google Sets	317
	The Google Glossary	319
	Google WebQuotes	320
	Keyboard Shortcuts	321
	The Google Viewer	322
	Google Compute	323
	Fun Uses of Google Search	326
	Joke Pages	326
	Googlism	327
	GooglePeople	329
	Google Smackdown	330
	GoogleWhacking	330
	Google Catalogs	331
	Google Wireless Services	332
	Google Number Search	332
	Other Ways to Search Using Google	332
Appendix	How Google Works	335
	How Web Search Works	336
	Crawling	337
	Indexing	339
	Searching	339
	Google's Rankings	340
	PageRank	341
	Simple Metrics	342
	Arcane Metrics	344
	The Scoring Equation	345
	Google's Engineering Principles	347
	Parallelism	347
	Redundancy	347
	Low-cost Hardware	347
	Specialization	348
	Index	349