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Google is the planet`s most popular program for finding stuff on the Web. Millions of people a day use it to search for everything from apple pie recipes to high school sweethearts to Zimbabwean bus schedulesbut it has no manual. And who needs help for such an easy to use program? As it turns out, Google has many hidden tricks and tools that can turn your simple searching into powerfuland successfuldiscoveries. But you have to know where to look. Google: The Missing Manual is your guide, covering:Search techniques and tricks. If you know which search words to choose and how to ask for the special things Google lets you look forlike phone numbers, definitions, stock quotes, pictures, and other goodiesyou`ll get more of what you want, more often. This book helps you search more effectively. Musthave tools. Why head to Google`s home page 80 times a day when toolbars, buttons and other widgets can help you search more efficiently? Use this book to find out how the pros achieve greater Google efficiency. Littleknown corners of Google. From the "Similar pages" links in your Google results to the mysterious Groups and Directory tabs on the home page, downtoearth discussions throughout this book explain what these odd items are and when you should use them.Whether you`re new to the Web or an Internet aficionado, Google: The Missing Manual is a friendly deskside companion, brimming with tips for getting more out of the world`s favorite search program.About the AuthorsSarah Milstein is an editor with O`Reilly, focusing on the Missing Manual series. She`s written numerous articles for the New York Times, and is the former editor of the New York Software Industry Association`s newsletter. Before that, she worked in the nonprofit sector. Intermittently, Sarah posts quirky movie reviews on her web site, www.dogsandshoes.com.Rael Dornfest is Chief Technology Officer at O`Reilly Media. He assesses, experiments, programs, fiddles, fidgets, and writes for the O`Reilly Network and various O`Reilly publications. Rael is Series Editor of the O`Reilly Hacks series and has edited, contributed to, and coauthored various O`Reilly books, including Mac OS X Pather Hacks, Mac OS X Hacks, Google Hacks, Essential Blogging, and Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies. He is also Program Chair for the O`Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In his copious free time, Rael develops bits and bobs of freeware, particularly the Blosxom weblog application, is Editor in Chief of MobileWhack, and (more often than not) maintains his Raelity Bytes weblog.
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