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BOOK REVIEW: Find It Online
Find It Online, The Complete Guide to Online Research (Second Edition, Fully Revised)
Alan M. Schlein, 1999, Facts on Demand Press
1971 East Fifth Street, Suite 101
Tempe AZ 85281
800-929-3811
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Paladin Press
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Ripping good reference tome here, folks. I've just finished it off, and it's already dog-eared as hell, from me trying to mark addy after addy for no end of neato shit. Of course, I could have just used the extensive table of contents if I'd wanted to. It's fine and dandy for keeping track of the amazing wealth of stuff between the covers of this one.
Search engines and how to maximize your use of them, public records, news resources, people finding, business and professional checking, fee-based information retrieval services, privacy issues, legal shit, oh hell, it just goes on and on and on.
I knew I had a good one when I opened it up and made the delightful discovery that it utterly ignores sports and entertainment. Screw that shit, go find the motherfucker yourself after you've learned the tricks of the search engine trade. Web pages for Elvis or Michael Jordan don't qualify as much of anything in the real world of info mining, and are treated accordingly.
What's here is nothing but the best for prizing information from the web, up to and including types of info that the web is more or less dog shit useless for acquiring. This thing's got you covered, whether the odds are in your favor or not.
Buy this book and the be sure to keep it on TOP of that pile of clutter next to your computer. You'll be glad you did.
A lifetime resident (despite having travelled all over the damn place at one time or another) of Central Florida, James MacLaren took a four-year degree in death thrills riding giant waves on the North Shore back in the 70's. Wound up in the inconvenience store following a lay off from the Cape, where he was involved with the construction of the Space Shuttle launch pads, among other things. Father of best son in the world.
