Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages, 2005 Edition

by Kraynak, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780789732521
• ISBN10: 0789732521
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

When you have to make a phone call and you don't know the telephone number, what do you pull out? The yellow pages. When you have to look up something on the Internet and you don't know the Website address, what should you pull out? Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages, 2005 Edition . The only Internet directory to incorporate a rating system into its listing, it provides specific traits and features for each website listed. Informational blurbs with each link describe exactly what you'll find and a foreword entitled "The Secrets to Successful Searching" provides you with background information, tips and techniques on safe searching for children and effective searching techniques. This is the ultimate guide for finding out whats what on the Internet.

Table of Contents

Abortion

Activism

Add/Adhd

Addictions

Adoption

Advice

Agriculture

Allergies

Alternative Medicine

Alzheimerrsquo;s

Amusement And Theme Parks

Antiques

Architecture

Associations

Astronomy

Auctions

Auto Racing

Automobile Clubs And Organizations

Automobiles

Aviation

Babies

Background Checks

Ballooning

Bargains

Baseball

Basketball

Beer

Bicycles

Billiards

Bingo

Birds

Blogs

Boats And Sailing

Books

Bowling

Boxing

Business

Camping

Canada

Cancer

Candy

Casinos

Cheerleading

Child Abuse And Missing Children

Childcare

Cigars

Civil Rights

Classifieds

Coaching Sports

Collecting

Colleges And Universities

Comics, Cartoons, And Animation

Computers

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Excerpts

Foreword: Quers"s Official Internet Yellow Pages, 2005 Edition The Secrets of Successful Searching by Michael Miller The most common activity for web users isn't online shopping or auctions, and it isn't downloading MP3 files, and it isn't even playing online games or viewing dirty pictures. No, the most common web-based activity issearching. That's because the Web is big and disorganized, so you have to actively search for just about anything you want to find. The reality is that most users spend at least part of every Internet session searching for some type of information--and hating every minute of it! There are a number of perfectly valid reasons people hate searching the Web. First, searching isn't easy--or, at least, it's not always intuitive. Second, it isn't immediately gratifying, because you seldom find what you're looking for. (On the first try, anyway.) And third, it isn't fun--unless you're one of those odd birds who thinks thumbing back and forth through the cross references in an encyclopedia is a blast. Those objections aside, you're still forced to search the Web for the information you want. Fortunately, the more you know abouthowandwhereto search, the more likely it is you'll find what you're looking for, fast. The Needle in the Haystack Problem Here's something you need to know: Web searching is more an art than a science. You need to develop afeelfor how and where to search; following a set of hard and fast rules won't always deliver the best results. That's because every search site not only operates differently, but also contains a different set of data; entering the same identical query at different sites more often than not produces wildly different results. So, even though the act of searching is deceptively easy (just enter a query in a search box and click a button), finding useful information is hard. Of course, it doesn't help that the Internet is big--really,reallybig--more than 80 billion documents and growing! With these numbers, your odds of finding a single page of information on the Web are in the neighborhood of 80 billion to one. The size problem is compounded by the fact that information online is not stored or organized in any logical fashion. You have to realize that the Internet itself is not run or managed by any central organization; the Web is nothing more than a collection of millions of individual computers, all connected by a bunch of wires crisscrossing the globe. Nobody is in charge; therefore, everybody has to manage his or her own computers and servers with no rules or regulations for guidance. In addition, there are no standards or guidelines for laying out web pages so that certain types of information are always presented the same way, using the same words, positioned in the same place. There is no guarantee that the topic described in a web page's title is even mentioned in the text of the page. There is no assurance that a page that was on the Web yesterday will still be there tomorrow. In short, the Web is a mess. The Art of Searching Not surprisingly, there have been several attempts over the years to organize this mess we call the Internet. This book,Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages, is one such attempt. However, as helpful as this book is, all attempts to organize the Internet ultimately fall short, simply because the Internet issobig andsodisorganized and growingsofast. Even the best attempts (and I view this book as one of the best) can document only a small part of the Internet; literally billions of other web pages go undocumented. So, when you'r