Searching 2.0 - Softcover

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If you aren't intimately familiar with the latest generation of Web 2.0 tools and how to exploit them fully in your daily reference work, then this book is for you. Master trainer Michael Sauers applies the super-search strategies for which he is known to a comprehensive range of tools for reference use, including: Web 2.0: definition; core concepts and implications; tagging and folksonomies getting organized: bookmarks; web pages; delicious popular search engines like, Google; Microsoft's Live Search; Yahoo! Search; Wikipedia: searching, citing, adding and editing; searching for media: Flickr; YouTube; Podscope; local search: Google Maps; Live Search Maps; print search: Google Book Search; Amazon's 'Search Inside the Book'; searching the past: the Google Cache; The Wayback Machine; Wikipedia Page Histories; searching without being there: OpenSearch files; creating OpenSearch plugins desktop search: Google Desktop; Windows Search; Desktop Search in Vista; data visualization: Kartoo; Literature Map, etc. Accessible and fun to read, with a wealth of illustrative screenshots, this is a comprehensive guide to searches that make the most of the Web 2.0 environment: from improving basic search skills and evaluating search results to making the best use of search engines, both common and cutting-edge. Sauers reviews each Web 2.0 tool for reliability and appropriateness in different search tasks and shows you how best to organize them for quick access at the reference desk. You (and your users, once you show them how) will use Sauers' advanced and special search methods again and again in your daily reference work, and his enthusiasm will have you running from the book to your computer every ten minutes. This work comprises of exercises that help you cement your knowledge into practical reference skills.

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