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Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource (3rd Edition)

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As webweaver and search optimizer for my company, I'm always on Internet information overload. There's a lot to be said for any book that gives me ready access to the many topics I need to access only occasionally, as well as the many others I didn't even know I needed to know about. This book excels at taking you into the confusing fine points of using Google. Blogger tags vs. HTML? I finally got it. Self-hosting your blog? Got that, too. The subtleties of sitemaps ... at last! Yes, with a great deal of effort and eye strain you could find much of this information on Google itself. I, for one, am happy to have so much information compiled and printed next to my workstation and to have the author's knowing voice guide me over the speed bumps. A good investment because of the hours of searching it saved me, though probably doomed to a short shelf life. I only wish the book came with an update feature ...

Comprehensive and High-Level Bird's Eye View of an impossibly huge collection of:
* Basic, Specialized Searches, and Additional Features,
* Shopping and Product Searches,
* Maps and Directions, Communication Services,
* Multimedia,
* Other Services,
* Google Software Tools,
* Google for Business and Developers,
* Into the future,

This is an impressive work of trying to summarize (even though it took 800 pages) of an impossible huge number Services and Products that are offered by Google. Some of these are totally disjoint, and some really related and extensions of each others.

This is an excellent comprehensive Reference Book to have next to your computer. I was very pleasantly surprised by many things, for example:
* Searching for Financial, University, Technical, and Government information,
* Google alerts and Updates, Making Google Safe for Kids, and other Languages and Translation Capabilities,
* I refined my ability to use to use Maps and Directions,
* I was impressed with Google Answers and Book Search, Tools for desktop, Calendar, and Google Pack,
* Was really happy to find Picasa, which is good image processing Application,
* Found out things about Google Labs, and found the Advanced Search Operators to be extremely helpful for navigation into the book and understanding of it.

Again, as one of the Google Mottos, Michael Miller has made the Impossible, Possible with this book. And not only he has done "No Evil", he has done an excellent job.

Bruce Razban,
President/Founder, Razban Internet International
Silicon Valley, CA, USA

I tip-toed into google via Picassa and shortly realized that there is so much to Google that I had to get a book. Found this at the library and decided to buy it. I probably could have googled all this stuff and found it on the computer, but having a book next to me made me excursions into the huge world of Google much easier.

This book covered the parts of Google that I wanted to teach older people who are active in groups and clubs. I was not interested in all the apps that are more for business. I found it friendly on all subjects. It is a bit outdated in 2011, but I was able to get what I wanted from it.

Google is still much in the Beta form and changes daily. Everything has to be updated frequently.

This is a great book with a lot of information--the chapters on Google CHECKOUT, ADSENSE, and ADWORDS were especially helpful to me. I also found out about a lot of Google applications I was not aware of, like Google HEALTH. Good price too.

I have not read the book completely but what I have read is a detailed look at what is available from the Google Site and its search engine. I have found several features of interest that I did not know about or ever use before. This is a good book for those of us who spend much time on the Internet

I would be the last person to complain about turning to books for information, and am even willing to argue that reading a well-done book about something can in some cases be an adequate substitute for experiencing it directly. But after looking through the nearly 800 pages of the "Google-pedia," I am still not entirely sure why it's necessary or for whom it is intended.

In my experience (and I admit to being a heavy user of Google products), Google specializes in two things: online searches -- obviously -- and also in making their products easy to understand and work with. I frankly saw very little in this "Google-pedia" that a user couldn't find in Google's own help documentation, or even figure out intuitively just from poking around the various sites and programs.

Perhaps it is easier or less intimidating for people less comfortable with the 'Net to have this kind of information readily available in book form instead of having to search for it online. In that case, this might be a decent enough introduction to the wealth of ways Google can facilitate (or monopolize, if you see it that way) your online experience. But I would suspect that more experienced users won't really find a whole lot in these pages they didn't already know or couldn't figure out with a minimal amount of curiosity and effort.

Did you know that Google has free email servie? Did you know that Google has a service, similar to EBay where you can buy/sell items? Did you know that you can download Google software, FREE, that could also sweep your hard drive to find items you've lost? Did you know all of the many different ways to use the search engine to find a wealth of information? Well, I was amazed to learn of these things and much, much more. I've recommended this book to everyone at my place of work and I will be buying three more copies at Christmas gifts for members of my family.

I highly recommend Googlepedia.

This book describes the many ways to refine your search on the web plus so much mors. Google is the largest search engine on the web witch explains the nearly 800 pages of Googlepedia. It has a prominent place in my library.