internet searching

Shows how to use Google applications in both classroom and administrative settings, covering shared documents, spreadsheet, calendars, and social networking.

Shows children how to use such Internet search engines as "Yahoo!," "Excite," and "AltaVista.".

Describes strategies for searching the World Wide Web, explaining how to narrow a search, discussing the use of keywords, subscription databases, and subject directories, and including exercises, checklists, and illustrations.

Explains how Google became one of the world's leading IPOs and reveals how it contributed to changes in information searching and viral marketing.

Provides information on the features of Google, including such topics as Gmail, AdSense, AdWords, the Google Desktop, Google Earth, Blogger, and Picasa.

Examines how thieves use the Internet to perpetrate scams and hoaxes.

Describes the difference between the "Visible" and "Invisible" Web, explains how to access the Invisible Web, and presents a directory of more than one thousand Invisible Web sites on such topics as business, education, health, legal resources, and public records.

Provides ideas, techniques, and resources to effectively search the Internet and is intended for librarians, teachers, students, writers, and professionals.

Examines the influence of Google, Inc. on the twenty-first century's changing media landscape, covering how the company's Internet search engine and other features have changed the way people live and work, and speculates as to the future of the industry.