The Joy Of Search Av Daniel M. Russell

<b>How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, “Is that plant poisonous?”).</b><br><br>We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn''t make us search experts; there''s much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online. In <i>The Joy of Search</i>, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don''t have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions—from “what is the w