Yes you are on the correct blog, I am talking about books today. Ah but they are technology books.

I wanted to share the titles of a couple of good books on internet searching.

Google Hacks, by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest is a great book on the time tested real life ways to search Google. How to harness Google's searching power by searching advance searching tips and methods. Even an expert searcher can be improve their Google searching skills by using the features and tricks that other power users do. Amazon.com has a nice description that goes into more detail.

I have read this book. I found it very useful and written for all experience levels, but there are some areas for more advanced Google users involved in scripting. It is book we carry in the library and I actually should just buck up and buy a copy for myself.

Google Pocket Guide, by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, DJ Adams is based of their popular book Google Hacks. It is only a 129 pages (Hacks is 300+). The Pocket Guide is not the mini version of Hacks. Both are about Google and both explain various ways at getting information from Google, but the Pocket Guide slightly more geared toward normal people. It also makes for a better desk reference book than hacks due to its size and tutorials. A nice feature that it has is its, where-do-I-go-now guide to finding specialised stuff that Google doesn't turn up.

This is a book that on my desk and I think would be a great read for those normal users who think they already know how to search Google. (I won't go into all the people who are stunned when I tell them that Google can't find everything, about its complicated page ranking, and about how they must capitalize AND. In their minds, only a senile, mute, blind, centatarian would not know how to search the internet using Google, right?)

Web Search Garage, by Tara Calishain is just out (September 9, 2004) so I haven't read it. There is a great description on ResearchBuzz. On her site (ResearchBuzz) Calishain provides a few freebie excerpts, Four Things Yahoo Can Do that Google Can't (PDF, 300K) , Seven Ways to Save Time Searching (PDF, 250K), and The Principle of Onions.
Here is the Table of Contents.

I just ordered this book so I look forward to reading it and telling you all about it.