Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide [Paperback]

Randolph Hock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2005

Yahoo! has a wide range of ways to find information, communicate, invest, shop, and sell, and this book provides an overview of the popular Web portal. Details on Web searching, finding and customizing news, and using and creating discussion groups are included, as well as information on using Yahoo! for communicating with e-mail and instant messaging, buying and selling goods and services, managing personal finances and investments, and personalizing with My Yahoo!. Presented to both novice and savvy users, this resource aids in utilizing additional Yahoo! content and features for quick and easy use such as travel, health, music, weather, maps, movies, photos, and games.

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About the Author

Randolph Hock is the owner of Online Strategies, a company that trains Internet researchers and creates courses on searching the web for professional associations, government agencies, schools, and businesses. He is the author of The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines and The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, and has written for publications such as Online and The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research. He is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and has been a reference librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Information Today, Inc. (September 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910965692
• ISBN-13: 978-0910965699
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,455,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ran Hock divides his work time between writing and teaching. On the teaching side, he specializes in customized courses teaching people how to use the Internet effectively (through his one-person company, Online Strategies). His courses have been offered--in the U.S. and eleven other countries -- to companies, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, schools, universities, and associations. On the writing side, he has written The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook (now in its Third Edition, CyberAge Books, 2010), The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines (CyberAge Books, 1999, 2001), Yahoo! to the Max (CyberAge Books, 2005), and The Traveler's Web (CyberAge Books, 2007). He has also been a chemistry teacher, a librarian at two universities, and has held training and management positions with DIALOG Information Services and Knight-Ridder Information. He lives in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife, Pamela, and they have two sons, Matthew and Stephen, and one daughter, Elizabeth. One of Ran's passions is travel, and he hopes to someday also have time to return to his hobby of genealogy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A renewed appreciation for Yahoo, August 27, 2005

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This review is from: Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide (Paperback)

Well I hadn't used Yahoo for the last several years because I could do whatever I wanted on Google. So, I didn't really know what I was missing until I read through this book and tried the myriad of little tricks detailed throughout. Yahoo has grown up and is a serious competitor to other search engines as well as a preferred site for some purposes. Author Randolph Hock introduces the reader to the details of various services of Yahoo including Groups, News, Mail, Messenger, GeoCities, Chat, Message Boards, Shopping, Auctions, Classifieds, and Finance. If that isn't enough he includes information on how to use Yahoo's city guides, maps, weather, people search, and lots of other useful stuff. Have you ever been to a website that did not have a search function? I've been to a lot of them. The author details how to deal with these situations using Yahoo and including site:www.sitename.com on the search line. When you do this it just searches that site! Or if you want to find all the sites that link to another site you can use the link syntax in the search box. I did that and it returned eight links. Surprisingly I did the same thing on Google and it only returned four and only one of them was the same in both engines. A couple of more searches following the instructions in the book and I was surprised to find that in several instances Yahoo returned more relevant results than my old favorite Google. With lots of details on how to use Yahoo effectively, Yahoo to the Max is a highly recommended book which has convinced me that I can often get the results I am looking for more easily from Yahoo than from competitors.