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How to Do Everything with Google
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How to Do Everything with Google |
Author: Fritz Schneider
Published: 2003-11-21 |
List price: $24.99
Our price: $22.49
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 People's "Primer" for 21st Century
I completely disagreed with the "know it alls" that trash this book. This is in fact the people's "primer" for the 21st Century. In the industrial era one needed to learn reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Today one needs to know how to find the needle in the haystack. While Google is still in the 4th grade, it will evolve quickly in the next few years, and the Google founders appear well on their way to making all of the world's information available to anyone anywhere. This will itself change the world.
This is a tremendous resource, and I do not consider it outdated because it is still the best available orientation to Google. I do agree that there are online supplements that can update the knowledge in this book and cover emerging capabilities from Google.
Bottom line: Google is central to all our lives now, this book is a useful jump start to anyone who wishes to leverage all of Google, not just the 10% most people see. For advanced IT people, I recommend Stephen Arnold's book, "The Google Legacy," available from Infonortics.co.uk, or at IOP '06 in January 2006.
 Save your money
Yes, there are many books out there on using Google. Yes, this is a good book for teaching the new user about using Google. But this information can easily be found anywhere on the Internet. The only chapter I found useful was the advanced searching portion. I read that in less than five minutes, however, and I am far from being a speed reader.
Also, it is only a matter of time before the information becomes outdated. It may already be outdated. Google is constantly changing and being updated (Google Labs) and a lot of this book will be useless by next year.
Finally, Google is very easy and simple to learn. Anyone can be a "power searcher" after learning just a few short lessons. You don't have to spend this much money to get a book that you can read in about five minutes.
An excellent book!
Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blachman and Eric Fredricksen did indeed an excellent job with this book.
Every chapter is full of valuable information and has helped me to discover that Google is not just the search engine I had been so used to for many years. Before reading this book I had no idea abouth all the things that can be done with Google. No wonder the authors named this book "How to Do EVERYTHING with Google."
I was particularly surprised by discovering the Google Calculator, and got so exited that decided to write an online keyboard for the calculator (...)
I loved the note at the end of Chapter 3 that says: "The Calculator is even rumored to hold the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Just ask!"
I believe this is a must book in this information era. Don't lose your time trying to use Google to find what Google can do, get the bigger picture first by reading this book, and then start the adventure. You will be surprised.
James Redin
 Excellent Book - Google Has Much To Offer
I purchased this book at the recommendation of my grandson, our family's resident hacker and wiz. I have to say I learned quite a bit about google by reading this book. Although I would not call myself a google expert, I will say that I am now a "power user". This books is not only thorough but written well enough that a non technical person such as myself can read it. Excellent job. Well done!
 A Company Book
This book parrots the company line/image. There are issues with Google but you never get a whiff of such from reading this book. Save your money and use the Google Help section!
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