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By: Tara Calishain

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Paperback | 24 June 2003

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This guide provides the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start. It contains: a thorough but concise tour of Google's features; practical examples to inspire going beyond the basic keyword search; secrets for constructing more powerful queries using Google's special syntax; and advice on how to understand and further refine the results Google provides.

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"Less a pocket reference and more a short introduction, this inexpensive book is a good choice for anyone who wants to improve their web searching with a light investment of money and time." - Gavin Inglis, news@UK, March 2004

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Databases Computer Networking & Communications Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Internet Searching Computer Programming & Software Development Web Programming Booktopia Publisher Services John Wiley & Sons Publishers UK

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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