Published by O'Reilly Press
Written by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest & DJ Adams
Review by Terry Pollard - July 2003
Some of the best words in our lexicon begin with a "G": gimp, gargantuan, gorilla, guacamole. Of course, there's also genocide and gangrene. So maybe that idea is out.
But we all have to agree that "google" is a great word. And everyone has done it. Heck, you've googled, I've googled, we've all googled. But we've all pretty much googled the same way ("googling" being fancy verbiage for "conducting an internet search using the Google search engine at google.com").
Who knew, though, that you could google in a whole new way, a way much more productive to your outcome?
Try going to google.com and typing in a search term. Typing in
Eudora Welty
for example, will kick back 30,900 links. Yikes! Encapsulate those two words in quotation marks, however, and you retrieve only 25,800 words. But try this one on for size:
Eudora Welty site:washingtonpost.com
Typing this in will instantly forward you to a page hosted by the Washington Post newspaper, with a list of all their articles on the beloved Mississippi author. Cool, huh?
Such are the tricks you can uncover in the new book by O'Reilly entitled "Google Pocket Guide." It discusses how the nature of "phraseology," or, in laymen terms, how to get the most bang for your buck when searching the net. After all, does anyone love Welty enough to scour over 31,000 links? I didn't think so.
Another nifty section in this book discusses the use of slang and how to maximize your google searching by incorporating it in your searches.
At 130 pages--index included--this handy little pocket guide is a must for the web researcher who wants more than, well, surfing.