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

Russell, Daniel M.

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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, readers will discover essential tools for effective online searches--and learn some fascinating facts and interesting stories.

Russell explains how to frame search queries so they will yield information and describes the best ways to use such resources as Google Earth, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia. He shows when to put search terms in double quotes, how to use the operator (*), why metadata is important, and how to triangulate information from multiple sources. By the end of this engaging journey of discovering, readers will have the definitive answer to why the best online searches involve more than typing a few words into Google.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

如何成為一個優秀的網路搜尋者,透過逐步搜尋一系列引人入勝的問題(例如「那種植物有毒嗎?」)來演示。

我們都知道如何透過在搜尋引擎中輸入關鍵字來在網路上查找資訊。我們這麼常這麼做,以至於我們已經將最著名的搜尋引擎變成了一個動詞:我們Google它——「日本人口」、「諾貝爾和平獎」、「毒葛」或者我們想知道的任何事情。但是,知道如何Google某事並不意味著我們是搜尋專家;我們可以做很多事情來獲取網路上龐大的集體知識。在《搜尋的樂趣》中,丹尼爾·羅素向我們展示了如何成為優秀的網路研究者。我們不需要成為電腦狂熱者或學者尋找晦澀的事實;我們只需要知道一些基本方法。羅素通過逐步搜尋一系列引人入勝的問題的方式來演示這些方法——從「毛巾的錯誤面是哪一面?」到「你最有可能死於哪種方式?」。在這個過程中,讀者將發現有效網路搜尋的基本工具——並學到一些有趣的事實和故事。

羅素解釋了如何構建搜尋查詢以獲取資訊,並描述了如何最佳利用Google Earth、Google Scholar、維基百科和維基媒體等資源。他展示了何時應該將搜尋詞用雙引號括起來,如何使用運算符(*),為什麼元數據很重要,以及如何從多個來源三角測量資訊。通過這段引人入勝的探索之旅,讀者將得到一個明確的答案,為什麼最好的網路搜尋不僅僅是在Google中輸入幾個關鍵字。