The Joy of Search
A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2019
Summary
A Google researcher offers accessible tips, tricks, and interesting stories on maximizing the power of search engines like Google and Wikipedia-proving you don’t have to be a computer whiz to master the art of online searching.We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb- we Google it-“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262042871 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262042878 |
| Author: | Daniel M. Russell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 800g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 29mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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The Joy of Search does offer a lively means of helping users to develop the thinking skills needed in strategically approaching available tools for solving an information problem.
—Scholarly KitchenIlluminating and gloriously wide ranging, the book leverages Russell’s expertise to create a practical resource for power searchers and rookie Googlers alike that’s also a pleasure to read.
—BooklistRussell’s tutorials are on a much higher plane but turn on the same basic principle of learning to treat the search engine as a tool that can at best assist the brain to address questions rather than effortlessly delivering an answer to your screen.
—Inside Higher EdAbout The Author
Daniel M. Russell
Daniel M. Russell is Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google. He has taught many classes on search methods, and more than four million students have taken his online power searching course.
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