This guide explains how to trawl the information superhighway to find the required information quickly. The Web's common search engines - Yahoo, InfoSeek, Lycos, Excite, AOL NetFind, HotBot, and WebCrawler - are covered, and searches for popular subjects such as sport, travel, health and education are explained in detail. Instructions are also included for searching the popular commercial online service, America Online. The guide provides tips on attaining optimum performance using the two main browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape navigator, along with instructions for downloading and unzipping files found on the Web. The enclosed CD contains shareware and freeware to make searching easier and enhance the Internet experience. Some of the products on the CD are browsers, WebWacker, Shockwave, decompression utilities, chat clients, newsreaders and also Internet service provider software.
- ISBN10 0764504789
- ISBN13 9780764504785
- Publish Date 13 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
- Pages 384
- Language English