Amazon.com Review During its time on the Web, the AltaVista search engine has undergone several revisions and continues to evolve. Though it faces competition from a number of worthy competitors, it's fair to say that AltaVista ranks as the most feature-rich general-purpose Web search tool. This book helps you get the most out of AltaVista's power, using tables and examples to show you how to get what you need.The authors first explain how to do basic searches, then move on to more advanced searches with Boolean operators and AltaVista's special parameters. Chapters detail how to do such things as search Usenet newsgroups and how to translate hits into other languages. If, for instance, you want to limit a search to Australian pages, this guide details the procedure. A lengthy alphabetical chapter lists searches for particular targets and, in doing so, illustrates some unusual search strategies.Those who publish their own Web sites will appreciate the chapter that reveals how AltaVista ranks the sites it indexes. Many of the engine's ranking algorithms are secret (and remain so), but many others are public and receive satisfactory coverage. An entertaining appendix lists the words most frequently used in Web pages (the is the big winner) and an Excite-like list of the most searched-for words (though apparently with the raunchiness edited out). --David Wall Product Description The only book available with an exclusive AltaVista focus, this definitive handbook helps readers learn how to conduct the most precise or expanded searches possible without getting overloaded, and how to go beyond the Web in their searches. Original. (All Users). From the Back Cover Experience the revolutionary search powers of AltaVista! AltaVista Search is the world's most popular Internet search tool. With access to the largest Web index in the world, it serves over 32 million search requests per workday! Now with this second edition of the award-winning, best-selling, officially endorsed The AltaVista Search Revolution, you'll learn how to master AltaVista's exciting search technologies and get connected to information - fast! Using step-by-step search examples and expert tips, learn to make your Internet searches even more precise and bring a steady flow of traffic to your own Web site. AltaVista is fast, powerful, and simple to use. Find anything on the Internet using precise and accurate searches - ideal for library/academic use; Master AltaVista Search's new interface and learn about its new features; Get your Web site picked up by AltaVista Search - tips from Web masters reveal how; Learn the fascinating inside story of how AltaVista Search came to be, and how it has expanded around the world.

AltaVista Search Revolution

Computers & Technology

Ray, Eric J.

Ray, Deborah

Seltzer, Richard

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

In this updated edition, authors Deborah and Eric Ray use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's Unix essentials. You’ll find the information you need to get started with the operating system and learn the most common Unix commands and concepts so that Unix can do the hard work for you. After mastering the basics of Unix, you’ll move on to how to use directories and files, work with a shell, and create and edit files. You’ll then learn how to manipulate files, configure a Unix environment, and run–and even write–scripts. Throughout the book–from logging in to being root–the authors offer essential coverage of Unix.

Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide

Ray, Eric

Certification

Peachpit Press

In-depth coverage is given of the hottest new HTML topics, from Cascading Style Sheet layers, Dynamic HTML, Active Server Pages, and "push" technology to the latest word on customizing Windows 98 using HTML. The CD-ROM includes the book's HTML reference in the "Modern Age" format and key HTML code and utilities.

Mastering Html 4.0

Ray, Deborah S.

Programming Languages

Sybex, Inc.

"Abdul Abul-bul Amir" is the most common name for a music-hall song written in 1877 (during the Russo-Turkish War) under the title "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" by Percy French, and subsequently popularized by a variety of other writers and performers. It tells the story of two valiant heroes - the titular Abdulla, fighting for the Turks, and his foe (originally named Ivan Potschjinsky Skidar in French's version), a Russian warrior - who encounter one another, engage in verbal boasting, and are drawn into a duel in which both perish. There is a message for all the world's superpowers in this classic confrontation of two ferocious fighters. Here, by the talented new artist-adapter of Nicolai Gogol's "Fair At Sorochintsi", is a boisterous portrayal of what happens when a perfect balance of fighting power is achieved. Each conqueror is confident that his is right, each knows that he is invincible, and both are furiously angry. En Garde! The words to the song are the words to the book and they are illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray (b. 1940), a children's author and illustrator who studied painting and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Musical accompaniments by Paul Kauriga for piano and guitar follow the text.

Abdul Abul-bul Amir & Ivan Skavinsky Skavar (1969-05-03)

Macrae Smith

This area of north-east London is sandwiched between the river Lea and the spectacular Epping Forest. Because of its difficult geographical location, it was ignored by the early railway companies and therefore not taken up by developers who had built rapidly on adjacent areas. In this way Chingford remained a rather isolated and inward looking community that was in the twentieth century developed as mainly a middle-class enclave, desirably placed next to an abundance of open space. This new history includes many illustrations which have not previously been published.

Chingford Past

History

Europe

Phillimore Co Ltd

A Young Researcher's Guide to Bigfoot

For many years, stories have been passed down from generation-to-generation about hairy, man-like creatures who roam forests around the world. Tribes who came to respect these creatures' territory had many names for the Wildmen of the Forest that included Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Mesingue.
Bigfoot hunters Gayle Beatty and Deborah Ray share interesting facts about the creatures of the forest that encourage children to safely explore nature and search for clues and evidence that can potentially change opinions in the scientific community regarding the validity of the Sasquatch. Beatty and Ray provide information regarding the habits of the creatures, how they interact, and what young researchers should bring along while searching for them. Included are detailed images and stories of fascinating personal sightings.
In this comprehensive guidebook, two experienced Bigfoot hunters share facts and stories that encourage curious young researchers to venture into the woods and carefully search for evidence that may prove these legendary creatures truly exist.

Children's Books

Beatty, Gayle

Animals

Archway Publishing

For many years, stories have been passed down from generation-to-generation about hairy, man-like creatures who roam forests around the world. Tribes who came to respect these creatures' territory had many names for the Wildmen of the Forest that included Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Mesingue.Bigfoot hunters Gayle Beatty and Deborah Ray share interesting facts about the creatures of the forest that encourage children to safely explore nature and search for clues and evidence that can potentially change opinions in the scientific community regarding the validity of the Sasquatch. Beatty and Ray provide information regarding the habits of the creatures, how they interact, and what young researchers should bring along while searching for them. Included are detailed images and stories of fascinating personal sightings.In this comprehensive guidebook, two experienced Bigfoot hunters share facts and stories that encourage curious young researchers to venture into the woods and carefully search for evidence that may prove these legendary creatures truly exist.

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