Google

by Calishain, Tara

• ISBN13: 9780596005504
• ISBN10: 0596005504
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Ideal for daily Google users, students researching a topic for class, medical or legal professionals looking up field-specific reference information, or home users looking for that article on home repair they saw but have since lost track of, the Google Pocket Guide helps people learn the fundamentals of Google search. That includes making the most of its special syntaxes, hidden options, and powerful combinations; consulting the Google dictionary; looking up individuals and businesses in the Google phonebook; finding related web sites and pages; and restricting or expanding a Google search by subject, web site, domain, time, title, etc. This potent little manual also shows readers how to dive into Google's special services and collections for images, newsgroups, current news and events, online shopping, and more. It's the indispensable pocket guide to Google.

Author Biography

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.

DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler are pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining open source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software. He's the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber book, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
What Can You Do with Google?
What Google Isn't	p. 5
What Google Is	p. 6
A Simple Example	p. 8
Improving Your Google Results	p. 11
Joseph Lomax, Student	p. 11
Sabine Reitz, Journalist	p. 13
Dr. Katie Aston, Dentist	p. 15
Asking for What You Want
Google Basics	p. 17
Phrase Searches	p. 17
Basic Boolean	p. 18
Negation	p. 19
Explicit Inclusion	p. 19
Simple Searching and Feeling Lucky	p. 20
Case Sensitivity	p. 20
Full-Word Wildcards	p. 21
The 10-Word Limit	p. 22
Favor Obscurity	p. 22
Playing the Wildcard	p. 23
Special Syntax	p. 24
Mixing Syntax	p. 32
How Not to Mix Syntax	p. 32
How to Mix Syntax	p. 34
The Antisocial Syntax Elements	p. 35
All the Possibilities	p. 37
Advanced Search	p. 38
Query Words	p. 39
Language	p. 39
File Format	p. 39
Date	p. 39
Occurrences	p. 40
Domain	p. 40
Safe Search	p. 40
Additional Google Properties	p. 40
Specialized Vocabularies: Slang and Terminology	p. 41
Slang	p. 41
Specialized Vocabularies--Industrial Slang	p. 43
Understanding What You Get
Setting Preferences	p. 47
Interface Language	p. 47
Search Language	p. 48
SafeSearch Filtering	p. 49
Number of Results	p. 49
Settings for Researchers	p. 49
Anatomy of a Search Result	p. 50
Understanding Google URLs	p. 53
Anatomy of a URL	p. 54
Checking Spelling	p. 56
Embrace Misspellings	p. 57
Other Google Services and Features
Google Directory	p. 59
Searching the Google Directory	p. 61
Google Directory Special Syntax	p. 62
Google Groups	p. 62
Browsing Groups	p. 63
Google Groups Special Syntax	p. 65
Google Images	p. 68
Google Images Special Syntax	p. 70
Google News	p. 71
International Versions	p. 72
Google News Special Syntax	p. 73
Making the Most of Google News	p. 74
Beyond Google for News Search	p. 75
Google Catalogs	p. 75
Google Catalogs Special Syntax	p. 78
Froogle	p. 79
Browsing for Purchases	p. 80
Searching for Purchases	p. 80
Froogle Special Syntax	p. 81
Adding a Merchant to Froogle	p. 82
Language Tools	p. 82
Getting to the Language Tools	p. 83
Making the Most of Google's Language Tools	p. 85
Consulting the Dictionary	p. 86
Consulting the Phonebook	p. 88
Google Phonebook Special Syntax	p. 88
Tracking Stocks	p. 92
Beyond Google for Basic Stock Information	p. 93
More Stock Research with Google	p. 94
Searching Article Archives	p. 95
Articles from The New York Times	p. 95
Magazine Articles	p. 96
Finding Directories of Information	p. 97
Title Tags and Wildcards	p. 97
Finding Searchable Subject Indexes	p. 99
Finding Technical Definitions	p. 100
Technology Terminology	p. 100
Google Glossary	p. 101
Researching Terminology with Google	p. 101
Where to Go When It's Not on Google	p. 102
Finding Weblog Commentary	p. 103
Finding Weblogs	p. 104
Using the "Magic Words"	p. 105
The Google Toolbar	p. 106
Googling with Bookmarklets	p. 109
Appendix
Syntax Summary	p. 111
Julian Dates	p. 116
Index	p. 119
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