Google Pocket Guide

Beneath its deceptively simple search form, Google is a remarkably powerful and flexible search engine that indexes billions of web pages, handling more than 150 million searches a day. You know that what you're looking for must be in there somewhere, but how do you make Google work for you?

Crafted from our best-selling Google Hacks title, the Google Pocket Guide provides exactly the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start. The Google Pocket Guide unleashes the power behind that blinking cursor by delivering:

• 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
• Advice on how to understand and further refine the results Google provides

Crafted from the bestselling "Google Hacks," the "Google Pocket Guide" provides exactly the information readers need to make their searches faster and more effective, right from the start. The book unleashes the power behind that blinking cursor by delivering a thorough but concise tour of Google's features and special syntax. O'Reilly & Associates

Crafted from the bestselling "Google Hacks," the "Google Pocket Guide" provides exactly the information readers need to make their searches faster and more effective, right from the start. The book unleashes the power behind that blinking cursor by delivering a thorough but concise tour of Google's features and special syntax.O'Reilly & Associates

Tara Calishain is the creator of the site, ResearchBuzz. She is an expert on Internet search engines and how they can be used effectively in business situations.

Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good. Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books. Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think.

DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler are pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining open source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software. He's the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber book, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.