Google Pocket Guide

Crafted from our bestselling 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 curser 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 and advice on how to understand and further refine the results Google provides.

Table of Contents

    Introduction  



    Part I. What Can You Do with Google?

      What Google Isn't  


      What Google Is  


      A Simple Example  


      Improving Your Google Results  

                Case A: Joseph Lomax, Student

                Case B: Sabine Reitz, Journalist  

                Case C: Dr. Katie Aston, Dentist  



    Part II. Asking for What You Want

      Google Basics  

                Phrase Searches  

                Basic Boolean  

                Negation  

                Explicit Inclusion  

                Simple Searching and Feeling Lucky  

                Case Sensitivity  


      Full-Word Wildcards  


      The 10-Word Limit  

                Favor Obscurity  

                Playing the Wildcard  


      Special Syntax  


      Mixing Syntax  

                How Not to Mix Syntax  

                How to Mix Syntax  

                The Antisocial Syntax Elements  

                All the Possibilities  


      Advanced Search  

                Query Words  

                Language  

                File Format  

                Date  

                Occurrences  

                Domain  

                Safe Search  

                Additional Google Properties  


      Specialized Vocabularies: Slang and Terminology  

                Slang  

                Specialized Vocabularies-Industrial Slang  



    Part III. Understanding What You Get

      Setting Preferences  

                Interface Language  

                Search Language  

                SafeSearch Filtering  

                Number of Results  

                Settings for Researchers  


      Anatomy of a Search Result  


      Understanding Google URLs  

                Anatomy of a URL  



      Checking Spelling  

                Embrace Misspellings  



    Part IV. Other Google Services and Features

      Google Directory  

                Searching the Google Directory  

                Google Directory Special Syntax  


      Google Groups  

                Browsing Groups  

                Google Groups Special Syntax  


      Google Images  

                Google Images Special Syntax  


      Google News  

                International Versions  

                Google News Special Syntax  

                Making the Most of Google News  

                Beyond Google for News Search  


      Google Catalogs  

                Google Catalogs Special Syntax  


      Froogle  

                Browsing for Purchases  

                Searching for Purchases  

                Froogle Special Syntax  

                Adding a Merchant to Froogle 


      Languag