Book details of 'Web Search Strategies'

Title	Web Search Strategies
Author(s)	Bryan Pfaffenberger
ISBN	1558284702
Language	English
Published	February 1996
Publisher	Hungry Minds, Inc

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book does contain a wealth of interesting information, particularly in terms of subject organized Web sites and search engines. The author breaks topical sites down into "Starting Points", "Subject Trees" and "Trailblazer Pages". These divisions appear to be arbitrary, and mean that you have to look in three places to gather the whole set of information, but a good deal of it is there. (New sites, of course, spring up on the net all the time: the publication of the book must have missed AltaVista by a very slim margin.) Strategies, however, are not a major focus. A point always mentioned by experienced searchers is to use a text browser or to turn off images to speed "surfing" time: Pfaffenberger recommends the use of a graphical browser. The actual lists of tactics comprise only two chapters. They are quite helpful for rank newcomers, but don't go into much depth. For example, boolean (logical) operators are covered, but only briefly, and in isolation. There is no coverage of combined boolean algebra (absolutely essential to fine tune your requests on large search engines) and only scant mention of boolean options in the discussions of specific search sites. For newcomers overwhelmed by the size of the Web, this will provide at least a starting point. The sites listed, and procedures suggested, can help you begin to see entry points. Effective use of the Web, however, will require either more information or experience. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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Web browsers of all levels can follow seven steps to finding information on the World Wide Web and the Internet thanks to Web Search Strategies. Learn to locate documents on the Web for virtually every topic of interest, how search engines and spiders work (including Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo, Virtual Library), and how to locate Internet resources including--WAIS databases and Usenet postings. The disk includes valuable HTML files for all URLs in the book, as well as Bookware, a searching utility, and Web-O-Deck, a utility for organizing bookmarks.