Google: The Missing Manual

J.D Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPodShuffle Fan Book, and is co-author of The Internet: The Missing Manualand the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual. She has been writingthe weekly computer Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New YorkTimes since 1998 and has covered everything from 17th-century Indian art tothe world of female hackers for the newspaper.She currently co-hosts theweekly NYT Tech Talk podcast and has written for Rolling Stone, The New YorkTimes Book Review and the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. Biersdorfer haswritten essays on the collision of pop culture and technology for the books"The Education of the E-Designer" (2001) and "Sex Appeal "(2000), and"Citizen Designer" (2003) from Allworth Press, and is a contributor to "TheEnlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything" (Bloomsbury USA2007). She lives in New York City and is equally obsessed with the BBC andthe banjo.Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes -- some of which are actually good.Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books.Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think.Matthew MacDonald is a developer, author, and educator in all things Visual Basic and .NET. He's worked with Visual Basic and ASP since their initial versions, and written over a dozen books on the subject, including The Book of VB .NET (No Starch Press) and Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly). He has also written Excel 2007:The Missing Manual, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, Access 2007:The Missing Manual, and Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, all from O'Reilly. His website is prosetech.com.Sarah Milstein is a consultant on Web 2.0 and editorial strategies, andan MBA candidate at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, waspreviously the Chief Publishing Evangelist for O'Reilly Media. Priorto that, Sarah was O'Reilly's Managing Editor, Senior Editor, andEditor, leading the development of the Missing Manuals, a bestsellingseries of computer books for non-geeks. She's also written for theseries, co-authoring "Google: The Missing Manual." Before joiningO'Reilly in 2003, Sarah was a freelance writer and editor, and aregular contributor to The New York Times. She wasalso a program founder for Just Food, a local-food-and-farms nonprofit, and co-founder of Two Tomatoes Records, a label thatdistributes and promotes the work of children's musician Laurie Berkner.

Google.com is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and is used around the world by millions of people every day. Sure, youknow how to "Google it" when you're searching for something--anything!--on the Web. It's plenty fast and easy to use. But did you know how much more you could achieve with the world's best search engine by clicking beyond the "Google Search" button?While you can interface with Google in 97 languages and glean results in 35, you can't find any kind of instruction manual from Google. Lucky for you, our fully updated and greatly expanded second edition to the bestselling Google: The Missing Manual covers everything you could possibly want to know about Google, including the newest and coolest--and often most underused (what is Froogle, anyway?)--features. There's even a full chapter devoted to Gmail, Google's free email service that includes a whopping 2.5 GB of space).This wise and witty guide delivers the complete scoop on Google, from how it works to how you can search far more effectively and efficiently (no more scrolling through 168 pages of seemingly irrelevant results); take best advantage of Google's lesser-known features, such as Google Print, Google Desktop, and Google Suggest; get your website listed on Google; track your visitors with Google Analytics; make money with AdWords and AdSense; and much more.Whether you're new to Google or already a many-times-a-day user, you're sure to find tutorials, tips, tricks, and tools that take you well beyond simple search to Google gurudom.

The Missing CreditsIntroductionPart One: Searching with GoogleChapter 1. Google 101The Heart of Google: Basic Text SearchesHow to Get More out of GoogleGetting SpecificTo Quote a PhraseSearching Within Your ResultsAnd vs. OrJust Say NoJust Say YesGetting LuckyTwo Important Google QuirksWildcardsThe Ten-Word LimitInterpreting Your ResultsYour Actual ResultsThe Things You Didn't Ask ForThe Stuff at the Bottom of the Results PageWhen Not to Use GoogleNine Very Cool Google TricksDefinitionsCalculatorPhonebookStreet MapsStock QuotesPatents, Tracking IDs, and Other Numeric GoodiesWeatherQ&AMoviesA Final Tip: Googling GoogleChapter 2. Superior SearchingHave It Your Way: Setting PreferencesInterface LanguageSearch LanguageSafeSearch FilteringNumber of ResultsResults WindowAdvanced SearchRefining Your SearchPage-Specific SearchTopic-Specific SearchesAdvanced Search on SteroidsSearching by Language and CountrySearching by TownGetting Fancy with SyntaxSearching TitlesSearching TextSearching AnchorsSearching Within Sites and DomainsSearching URLsWho Links to Whom?Caching UpDaterangeSearching by File TypeSearching for Related ContentSynonymsMost of the Kit and CaboodleMixing SyntaxHow Not to Mix SyntaxHow to Mix Syntax CorrectlyAnatomy of a Google URLChanging the Number of ResultsChanging the Interface LanguageTwo More URL TricksPart Two: Google ToolsChapter 3. Googling Further: Images, News, Maps, and MoreGoogle ImagesSearching for ImagesReading Your Images ResultsGoogle NewsSearching Google NewsBrowsing Google NewsCustomizing Google NewsGetting the News DeliveredGoogle MapsUsing Google MapsGetting DirectionsUsing Local Search and Maps TogetherGoogle DirectoryWhen to Use the DirectoryBrowsing the DirectorySearching the DirectoryGoogle PrintSearching for BooksChapter 4. Googling with Others: Groups and AnswersGoogle GroupsWhen to Use Google GroupsHow Google Groups Are OrganizedHow the Usenet Groups Are OrganizedNavigating Google GroupsPosting Messages in Google GroupsHow to Create a Google GroupGoogle AnswersWhen to Use Google AnswersBefore You Ask a QuestionAsking a QuestionWhile You WaitGetting an AnswerChanging Your Account SettingsChapter 5. Shopping with GoogleWhen to Use FroogleFinding Stuff with FroogleSearchingAdvanced Froogle SearchShopping ListsChapter 6. The Google ToolbarThe Google Toolbar: Search FasterInstalling the Google ToolbarWorking with the Search BoxThe Two Toolbar Buttons You Can't Get Rid OfThe Optional Toolbar ButtonsOther Browsers with Google FeaturesSafariMozilla, Firefox, and NetscapeTwo More Browsers Worth MentioningChapter 7. More Cool Google ToolsAlternative Search BoxesBrowser ButtonsSearch SidebarsSearching from the Address BarBookmarkletsGoogle Desktop SearchInstalling Google Desktop SearchUsing Google Desktop SearchDisabling Google Desktop SearchGoogle DeskbarInstalling the DeskbarSearching via the DeskbarCustomizing the DeskbarExperimental Google ToolsPersonalized SearchPersonalize Your HomepageMy Search HistoryGoogle SuggestGoogle VideoGoogle Web AcceleratorGoogle SetsGoogle WirelessCan Your Device Get Online?Is Your Device Actually Online?Googling on the FlyGoogle Mobile Local SearchFroogle on the Road