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First, I offer thanks to Jerry Peek for suggesting that I write a book
about how to search with Google. I revised this tutorial
incorporating the valuable comments and suggestions from many people
to whom I am grateful. They include: Rod Adams, Amit Agarwal, Abass
Ahmady, Marian Bach, Joe Barker, Penny Barsimantov, Adam Baxter, Joel
Biatch, Justin Carroll, Henry Cejtin, Marc de Groot, Jutta Dejener,
Philip De Neef, Marie desJardins, Larry Engholm, Tim Farley, Stephen
Ferguson, Philip Fire, Gordon Barg, Ahuva Gelblum, Wouter Gerritsma,
Johann George, John Glenn, Anita Goldstein, Leora Gregory, Andrew
Gumperz, Tim Helck, Tom Hill, Hank Hufnagel, Nancy Jamison, Richard
Karpinski, Debra Kaufman, Shauna Kelly, Steve Klein, Stefani Lefebre,
Doris Li, Jan Lindner, Dan Lyons, Liz Mabey, Chris Manning, Jane Manning,
Sandy McNiven, Katie Miller, Robert Miller, Gwyn Firth Murray, Dave Nagle,
Martha Newman, Steve Omohundro, Eric S. Pecoraro, Jerry Peek, Lisa
Pons, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner, Abijah Reed, Hamish Reid, Sara Richards,
Marlene Rozofsky Rogers, Bob Rosenberg, Kevin Rowe, Janet Sanford, Taly Sharon,
Malcolm Slaney, Alex Sokolowski, Romke Soldaat, Stephan Spencer, Paul
Spinrad, Brad Templeton, Matt Vance, Linda Walters, Rita Wespi, Dan
Whittaker, and Hanna Yap. I especially thank Earl Crabb, Pauline
Facciano, Thomas Galloway, Joy Li, Milton Peek, Mark Seiden, and
Google Answers researchers (most of whom I know by their handles)
Angy-ga, Byrd-ga, Crabcakes-ga, Omnivorous-ga, Serenata-ga, Voila-ga,
and Robert Skelton for providing a wealth of advice for making this
tutorial more accurate and readable. I thank Fritz Schneider and Eric
Fredricksen, with whom I wrote How
to Do Everything with Google, for providing me ideas of what to
include in this tutorial. I'm also grateful to Matt Vance, author of
www.minezone.org
for suggesting that I develop a Google Advanced Operator cheat sheet,
to Hamish Reid for making Google Guide easier to navigate, and my
father, Nelson Blachman, for asking questions that encouraged me to
explore and learn more about how Google works and for reviewing
numerous drafts. I thank Jerry Peek for joining me on this project.
I thank David desJardins, my husband, for suggesting
topics to include, answering my questions, and reviewing early
versions of this tutorial. Last, but not least, I thank Louis and
Sarah for their big hugs and kisses when I wasn't working on this
Google tutorial.
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