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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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