How to Do Everything with Google

By: Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman, Eric Fredricksen

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Paperback | 19 November 2003

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Get inside the massive search engine and learn how to make Google's enormous power work for you to find exactly what you need. Discover what librarians and researchers know and learn the best tactics and strategies for finding information on the web using Google search. Includes coverage of little-known Google features such as the bargain-searching Froogle, a news service, an image search service, and more.

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Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Google Web Search
Welcome to Google	p. 3
Google	p. 4
The Google Interface	p. 5
Google Doodles	p. 7
The Google Doodler	p. 7
Google's Services	p. 8
Essential Google Facts	p. 9
What Google Is Not	p. 11
A Brief History of Google	p. 13
Craft Your Searches	p. 15
How to Enter a Query	p. 16
Go Directly to the First Result	p. 17
Select Search Terms	p. 19
Use Words Likely to Appear on the Pages You Want	p. 19
Pose Answerable Queries	p. 21
Be Brief	p. 21
Search Behavior	p. 22
Implicit AND	p. 22
Common Word Exclusion	p. 22
Case Insensitivity	p. 25
Punctuation Exclusion	p. 26
Search Term Order and Proximity	p. 26
Search Operators	p. 27
Quotes	p. 27
The OR Operator	p. 30
The Inclusion Operator (+)	p. 32
The Exclusion Operator (-)	p. 32
The Synonym Operator ([similar])	p. 35
Common Misconceptions	p. 37
Find Specialized Information	p. 41
Correct Spelling	p. 42
Word Definitions	p. 45
Phone Numbers and Addresses	p. 46
Reverse Lookups	p. 47
Street Maps and Directions	p. 49
Stock Quotes	p. 51
Calculator	p. 52
Basic Arithmetic	p. 53
Advanced Math	p. 54
Units of Measure and Conversions	p. 57
Understand Search Results	p. 61
The Anatomy of a Results Page	p. 62
Search Tools and Information	p. 62
Search Boxes	p. 64
Links to Tools and Tips	p. 64
Search Tabs	p. 66
The Statistics Bar	p. 66
Web Search Results	p. 67
The Result Link	p. 68
Snippets	p. 68
Technical Information	p. 71
Cached Version of the Result	p. 71
The Similar Pages Link	p. 74
Categories and Description	p. 74
The Translate This Page Link	p. 74
File Type Conversion	p. 77
Many Results from a Single Site	p. 79
Go Beyond the First Page of Results	p. 79
Omitted Results	p. 82
Other Kinds of Search Results	p. 82
Sponsored Links (Paid Advertisements)	p. 83
Evaluate What You Find	p. 86
Credibility	p. 87
Types of Results	p. 88
Advanced Web Search	p. 95
Use the Advanced Search Form	p. 96
Advanced Operators	p. 96
Group or Exclude Terms	p. 97
Search Restrictions	p. 100
Find Information on Specific Pages	p. 109
Search by Topic	p. 114
Advanced Operators Rehashed	p. 116
define	p. 116
stocks	p. 116
phonebook	p. 116
Summary of the Advanced Operators	p. 118
Language Tools	p. 119
Refine a Query	p. 124
Make Searching Easier with Google Tools	p. 131
Make Google Your Home Page	p. 132
The Google Toolbar	p. 134
Default Search	p. 144
Browser Buttons	p. 146
Mozilla and Netscape 6	p. 147
Search Google on Macintosh Systems	p. 148
Configure Google	p. 151
Setting Preferences	p. 152
Resetting Preferences	p. 154
Language Settings	p. 155
Interface Language	p. 155
Search Language	p. 161
Safe Search	p. 163
Number of Results	p. 165
New Results Window	p. 166
Google Features
Search News Sources with Google News	p. 169
Google News	p. 170
Browse Google News	p. 174
News Stories	p. 175
News Categories	p. 177
Search Google News	p. 179
Search Techniques for Google News	p. 180
Possible Uses	p. 190
Limitations of Google News	p. 191
International Google News Domains	p. 191
Search Discussion Forums with Google Groups	p. 193
Usenet	p. 194
The Usenet Hierarchy	p. 195
Google Groups	p. 198
Browse Google Groups	p. 201
Find Newsgroups	p. 201
Read Newsgroup Messages	p. 204
Post Newsgroup Messages	p. 210
Search Google Groups	p. 211
Select Search Terms	p. 214
Advanced Groups Search	p. 214
Possible Uses	p. 219
Participate in Discussions	p. 219
Mining Usenet	p. 219
Post a Question	p. 220
Find Pictures with Google Images	p. 223
Search Google Images	p. 224
Google Images Results	p. 225
Image Viewer Interface	p. 227
Craft Image Search Queries	p. 229
Advanced Image Search	p. 232
Copyrights	p. 239
Browse Topics by Category with the Google Directory	p. 243
The Open Directory	p. 245
The Google Directory	p. 245
Categories	p. 247
Browsing the Google Directory	p. 249
Searching the Google Directory	p. 253
Directory Search Quality	p. 254
Possible Uses	p. 255
Google Directory in Non-English Languages	p. 256
Ask Researchers Questions with Google Answers	p. 259
How It Works	p. 260
Who Are the Researchers?	p. 261
Tour of Google Answers	p. 263
Search Google Answers	p. 265
Browse Google Answers	p. 267
Anatomy of the Question View	p. 271
Ask a Question	p. 273
Sign Up for an Account	p. 273
Pose a Question	p. 276
After You Post a Question	p. 283
Unanswered Questions	p. 286
Unsatisfactory Answers	p. 287
Possible Uses for Google Answers	p. 288
Is Google Answers Effective?	p. 291
Limitations of Google Answers	p. 292
Find Bargains with Froogle	p. 295
Introducing Froogle	p. 296
Browse Products	p. 298
Lists of Products	p. 298
Individual Products	p. 301
Search Froogle	p. 303
Select Search Terms	p. 303
Refine Your Query	p. 303
Possible Uses	p. 308
Other Cool Features	p. 309
Google Zeitgeist	p. 310
Google Labs	p. 313
Search by Location	p. 315
Google News Alerts	p. 316
Google Sets	p. 317
The Google Glossary	p. 319
Google WebQuotes	p. 320
Keyboard Shortcuts	p. 321
The Google Viewer	p. 322
Google Compute	p. 323
Fun Uses of Google Search	p. 326
Joke Pages	p. 326
Googlism	p. 327
GooglePeople	p. 329
Google Smackdown	p. 330
GoogleWhacking	p. 330
Google Catalogs	p. 331
Google Wireless Services	p. 332
Google Number Search	p. 332
Other Ways to Search Using Google	p. 332
How Google Works	p. 335
How Web Search Works	p. 336
Crawling	p. 337
Indexing	p. 339
Searching	p. 339
Google's Rankings	p. 340
PageRank	p. 341
Simple Metrics	p. 342
Arcane Metrics	p. 344
The Scoring Equation	p. 345
Google's Engineering Principles	p. 347
Parallelism	p. 347
Redundancy	p. 347
Low-cost Hardware	p. 347
Specialization	p. 348
Index	p. 349
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