| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-10-01 | | Series: | Visual Quickstart Guide Series | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 228 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Note The most popular Web search engines are AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo! Knowing what each one does best can save the user lots of time and hours of frustration. Readers will learn to harness the hidden powers of the major Web search engines with this to-the-point, step-by-step guide.
Industry Reviews This great little book covers all the major search engines web users deal with every day AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek, Lycos, and Yahoo! The authors look at how search engines work, keywords and Boolean searching, and searching for businesses, people, zip codes, and Internet domain names. There is information to get technophobes comfortable with the basics as well as advanced techniques that will help professional researchers and librarians. Highly recommended. Adil
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