Last updated 3/07/2006

Google Pocket Guide

Google Pocket Guide
Author: Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest & DJ Adams
Publisher: O'Reilly
129 pages ... $9.95

is derived from the O'Reilly Google Hacks and tells you how to get the information you want from the Web. It explains Google and tells you how to ask the right questions using boolean logic and special Google words like "intitle." You learn to put phrases in quotes, a minus with no space afterward to mean exclude, and to use parentheses.

This pocket guide would be good to read even if you only do simple searches using Google in Safari. if only to know things like in Google "North" is not the same as "north." Try entering rtelephone: and your telephone number.

If you are doing any kind of research on the Internet you could save a lot of time with a guide like this. You save a little time by going directly to sites like http://news.google.com or http://images.google.com instead of starting at http://www.google.com. You save a lot more time by following the guide's hints for conducting the search once you get to these pages.

Even you don't buy the book, go to http://www.google.com and explore just for fun. Just experimenting with not special reason to look for anything, I found almost 700 images of circus elephants.

For more information about the book, go to http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlepg. Add chapter/index.html to that url to get sample excerpts.

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