BOOK REVIEW: Find It Online
by James MacLaren
Find It Online, The Complete Guide to Online Research (Second
Edition, Fully Revised)</b>
Alan M. Schlein, 1999, Facts on Demand Press
1971 East Fifth Street, Suite 101
Tempe AZ 85281
800-929-3811
Also Available From:
Paladin Press
POB 1307
Boulder CO 80306
paladin-press.com
800-466-6868
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.
