The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

by Daniel M. Russell

Narrated by Charles Constant

Unabridged — 6 hours, 56 minutes

The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

by Daniel M. Russell

Narrated by Charles Constant

Unabridged — 6 hours, 56 minutes

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Overview

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: We Google it—"Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online.

In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don't have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions—from "what is the wrong side of a towel?" to "what is the most likely way you will die?" Along the way, listeners will discover essential tools for effective online searches—and learn some fascinating facts and interesting stories.


Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The Joy of Search does offer a lively means of helping users to develop the thinking skills needed in strategically approaching available tools for solving an information problem.”
Scholarly Kitchen

“Illuminating and gloriously wide ranging, the book leverages Russell’s expertise to create a practical resource for power searchers and rookie Googlers alike that’s also a pleasure to read.”
Booklist

“Russell's tutorials are on a much higher plane but turn on the same basic principle of learning to treat the search engine as a tool that can at best assist the brain to address questions rather than effortlessly delivering an answer to your screen.”
Inside Higher Ed

Product Details

BN ID: 2940172398780
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Publication date: 01/21/2020
Edition description: Unabridged
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