The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher |  | Author: Randolph Hock
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
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Edition: 2nd
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0910965765
Dewey Decimal Number: 025.04
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Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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An essential guide for anyone who conducts research on the Internet—including librarians, teachers, students, business professionals, and writers—this fully revised handbook details what users must know to take full advantage of Internet search tools and resources. From emerging search tools Ask.com and Windows Live to standbys Google and Yahoo!, the major search engines and their myriad of services are thoroughly discussed. Recent additions to the Internet realm—RSS feeds, podcasts, alert services, wikis, and blogs—are explained, as well as tried-and-true search tools, including web directories, newsgroups, and image resources. For those with little to moderate searching experience, friendly, easy-to-follow guidelines to the world of Web research are provided, while experienced searchers will discover new perspectives on content and techniques.
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 If you search the web, you need this book January 30, 2004
Mary E. Bates (Boulder, CO USA)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
Wow. Ran Hock's done it again. I'm a jaded, long-time web researcher, but I opened up this book and wondered how I'd managed before now. Ran offers detailed descriptions of search engines and their key features, techniques for finding multimedia content, reviews of the major web directories, tips for searching news, and even a nice "Internet reference shelf." This book should be on every web searcher's desk.
A treasure trove of information March 6, 2004
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Finding things on the massive database known as the internet can be quite the daunting task. Now in an updated and expanded third edition, "The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher" serves as a complete and comprehensive guide to using the internet to its fullest extent to help one find what they want the quickest way possible. Google and Yahoo are not the last line for finding things, and Randolph Hock hopes to help readers use more advanced techniques to make for quicker, more efficient searches. "The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook" is a treasure trove of information that belongs in any community library technology collection.
Updated web links make this book an essential tool February 27, 2006
foraminut (Michigan, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This resource should be on every serious searcher's shelf next to Chris Sherman's book(s)and Find It Online. Gary Price updates his website to supplement the chapters in the written book, which is very helpful. Price takes a slightly different approach to Sherman, which helps to find resources which might not be self-apparent from Sherman's books. I can't imagine being without either this tool or those of Price's colleague (Sherman).
Excellent Resource for Precise Internet Searching!! February 17, 2007
txmomof2 (Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a textbook for an Electronic Information Retrieval course at school. I have found that this is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn how to get more out of their Internet and Database searches. This is a must have for anyone needing to do research!!
Overall, an excellent tool for internet researchers, neophytes and old pros alike. August 25, 2010
Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Randolph Hock is into his third edition of "The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook". This is one of those gems that should be on the bookshelf, if not the desk, of every who uses the internet to search for information. Overall, it is an excellent book, written in an informal style (which can be considered a deficit by some), loaded with instruction, examples and details.
Most people don't know how to unleash the full power of the ubiquitous Google. Read this and you'll learn how to use Google the way the pros do and greatly enhance your search skills. Hock will introduce you to specialty search engines you never heard of and will be thankful to Hock for letting you know about them.
Beyond search engines, Hock instructs about services that many people not be familiar with such as UseNet, still one of the most powerful ways to get esoteric technical information, forums, groups and so on. Along the way, Hock dispenses nuggets of internet history which many people - sadly - aren't aware of.
The only grievous error I found was Hock's choices of recommended news sources. Each of those Hock recommends has been criticized for biased and incomplete reportage and in three cases has been shown to be fabricating stories, photos and even video in order to shape public opinion. I think Hock should have included more sources so the reader would be introduced to a wider range of viewpoints.
Shopping and price comparison sites, news aggregators, blogs and more are covered. There are quite a few specialty sites that I was glad to learn about. Amazingly, Hock doesn't treat any of these in a completely superficial manner. In each case, he provides at least the basic information about what the resource provides and how to use it.
For any researcher using the internet, this is a must-have book.
Jerry
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