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Designed to cover the world of Internet research, ResearchBuzz provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories -- whatever. It's written by Tara Calishain, the lead author of the NYT best-seller Google Hacks and the author of many other search-related books, including Web Search Garage (see book suggestions below). ResearchBuzz was started in 1998 and contains over 2000 pointers, writeups, and reviews related to search engines, databases, and online information collections. The resources are divided into over 200 categories. Choose from an RSS feed or a free weekly newsletter to keep up. Good stuff! From This is True for 9 January 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain Amazon Price: $16.49 Customer Review: We got a used copy of Google Hacks, and my wife studied the searcher's tips for a couple weeks before I got to study the webmaster's guide. Like the Jack Sprats of the nursery rhyme, we licked that platter clean. It's dated now, but that only means t...  by Kevin Hemenway, Tara Calishain Amazon Price: $16.47 Customer Review: This book is rich in techniques for creating scripts to automatically gather information particles from web pages. You appreciate how difficult it can be and how short lived any such application can be. Unless there is considerable economic value to ...  by Tara Calishain Amazon Price: $27.57 Customer Review: There is something for the beginner through to the advanced researcher in this book. Some of it will get dated fairly quickly as the web evolves almost faster than a book can be written. Her syntactical search tips for all the major tools are very va...  by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, DJ Adams Amazon Price: $9.95 Customer Review: Google's search functions have changed a bit since this book was published in 2003, but it remains a valuable reference. Why? First, because Google's help function for search is not overly sophisticated or detailed. ...  by Tara Calishain Amazon Price: $17.99 Customer Review: I bought this book reading the reviews on Amazon.com. When I got it, I was sorely disappointed. The author has a bit of an arrogance about her which comes through in the pages, which is fine, but then the book doesn't teach any good tricks...so the a... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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