Secrets of the Super Net Searchers: The Reflections, Revelations and Hard-Won Wisdom of 35 of the World?s Top Internet Researchers (Cyber Age Books) [Paperback]

Reva Basch (Author)

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Series: Cyber Age Books | Publication Date: November 1, 1996

Reveals the insights, anecdotes, tips, techniques, and case studies of 35 of the world’s top Internet hunters and gatherers. These super net searchers explain how to find valuable information on the Internet, including where the Internet shines as a research tool, distinguishing cyber-gems from cyber-junk, and how to avoid “Internet Overload.”

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Over thirty of the world's leading Internet searchers contribute their advice on developing search strategies which really work. Basch interviewed the experts for her title: their advice, anecdotes, tips and case histories tell how to locate information on the Web without 'getting lost' in the process. -- Midwest Book Review

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Reva Basch

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Information Today, Inc.; First Edition edition (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910965226
• ISBN-13: 978-0910965224
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,770,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Consider other Internet Search Books for Technical tips, June 30, 1998

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This review is from: Secrets of the Super Net Searchers: The Reflections, Revelations and Hard-Won Wisdom of 35 of the World?s Top Internet Researchers (Cyber Age Books) (Paperback)

If what you are seeking for are real technical search tips, consider the following 2 books: Web Search Strategies, by Bryan Pfaffenberger, Mis Press, 428 pp, 1996, ISBN 1-55828-470-2, The AltaVista Search Revolution, 2nd Edition, by Eric J. Ray, Deborah S. Ray and Richard Seltzer, Osborne McGraw-Hill, 395 pp, 1998, ISBN 0-07-882435-4, On both you will find plenty examples and suggestions of how to improve or refine a search, while on Reva Basch's Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, you will have to distill more than 300 pages to gather some technical advice, from its purely verbose interviews. The only technically usable sections of the book are its Appendix A, with a List of about 100 Referenced Sites and Sources, and the book's main Index, where more information on some Search Engines, can be dispersely gathered and located among the interviews. What Reva Bash presents is a collection of personal points of view and general advice of how to keep up to date and seek new information, via the Web. A significant number of interview questions where centered on services like DIALOG, LEXIS-NEXIS, CARL, NETTRAIN, WAIS and Gopher, and almost none on "Super Net Searching Engines" as the reader could expect from the book title. The 35 interviewed professionals, includes specialists on independent research, academic librarians, educators, corporate researchers, web-masters, writters, consultants and net pioneers, but none of them actualy involved on any of the major Web Search Engines, like AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek or Yahoo. The final impression is that the book was written to other Super Net Searchers interested on knowing a bit more of some colleagues own experiences and points of view, but with no clear advise rules emerging as a consensus for the common day by day Internet use after all.