Building Research Tools with Google ™ 1st Edition by Harold Davis (PDF)

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Google—a funny name for a fabulous tool. You’ve already used it to look up all sorts of information on the Web almost instantly. Now what if you could use its amazing abilities to turbo-charge your research on a grand scale? Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies can help you do just that. In plain English, it shows you easy ways to:Ask Google exactly what you want to knowDetermine whether what you need can actually be found through Google, and where to look if the answer is “no”Improve your research resultsPresent your findings in a way that makes senseWrite your own specialized search applications—if you want toTo get the most from Google, you need to understand Google. Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies explains how Google works and how you can build more effective queries (hint: it’s a lot more than just using the “Advanced Search” techniques!) It even shows you how to think like a researcher and how to package the results of your research so it means something to your audience. You’ll be able to:Understand Google research techniques and use the custom search-related syntaxRecognize Google’s strengths—and limitationsTarget your search by using Google operatorsUse Google to research photos, or even an entire industryImprove the effectiveness of your results by understanding Google’s comparative methodologyBuild custom tools using WDSL and Web ServicesYou don’t have to become a programmer to use Google, but if you know a little about software development and want to explore new, more focused search techniques, Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies has a section just for you. It introduces you to the Google API, shows you how to download a developer key, and leads you through building a C# .Net Google application. On the companion Web site, you’ll find the source code and software discussed in the book as well as links to lots of other resources for researchers. Before you know it, you’ll be Googling your way to research success!

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Use Google APIs to turbo-charge your research See how Google works, build more effective queries, and improve your resultsSure, you’ve used Google, but have you really explored all that Google can do? This friendly guide leads you deep into Google-land, where you’ll meet your perfect research partner. Find out how to ask exactly what you want to know, analyze and package your results, and even create individualized tools for the research you do.Discover how toUnderstand Google research techniquesUse Google’s custom search-related syntaxImprove your research skillsPresent results that make senseWork with Web services and WSDL About the Author Harold Davis is an expert on Web services technologies. As a technology strategist, he has lent his skills to some of the leading high-tech Fortune 1000 companies.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book has the best information I have read about Google and the syntax of search. If I have a bone to pick it is with writing style which might be a little too humorous for me. But this doesn’t bother too much. I am a programmer so I like the information about the Google APIs. It is accurate and helpful. But also the good information about research. And, where else are you going to find a Dummies book that explains the Internet, Socratic method, Plato, and Talmud? If these things at all are of interest to you, get this book.

⭐I’ve been a fan of Harold Davis’s books for some time. I come at them as someone who has been writing computer programs from the days when computers were room-filling monsters. If I need to quickly get going on a new programming language, I know that if Davis has a book on that language, that’s the book to buy. But this book is way different. Sure it has stuff for programmers like detailed information about the Google APIs so we can easily build our own slick search programs. But it has fascinating information for anyone who uses Google – and nowadays that’s everybody. I promise that if you get this book you will learn surprising and useful things about Google that you never suspected.

⭐I’m a webmaster, and I use Google everyday – both in connection with my sites, and also to research all kinds of things. This book will have you building research tools that extend Google. But more important, it will you teach about how to research, what is Google and what is not, how Google works, how to evaluate the credibility of what you find, and much more. If you teach someone to fish, you feed them for life. This book will help you research for life. It’s the best book about Google I’ve read, and believe me I’ve read a few. If Google touches your life, get this book.

⭐It teaches me many useful google tricks that I didn’t know before. Especially this […] website is fun. You can fight anything there. Even this book with other google related books.See who wins.

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