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You can simply do no better than Nancy Blachman's extensive
Google Guide website:
http://www.googleguide.com/
Nancy even did research here on GA, submitting 14 questions
in the process of perfecting her extremely detailed site:
http://answers.google.com/answers/search?q=%22asked+by%3A+nancyb%22+googleguide&qtype=all&btnG=Google+Search
The table of contents page is a good place to begin exploring:
http://www.googleguide.com/toc.html
At the bottom of that page, you'll see a special offer:
"Buy a pdf version of Google Guide for only $1.99 USD."
Nancy also co-authored the book 'How to Do Everything with
Google':
"The book How to Do Everything with Google, which I
co-authored with Google engineers Fritz Schneider and
Eric Fredricksen, covers material similar to Google
Guide, but with many more examples, more detailed
descriptions, and more about the history and development
of features and services in Google. In other words,
How to Do Everything with Google is more comprehensive
than Google Guide."
http://www.googleguide.com/intro.html
The book is for sale at Amazon.com, for $16.99:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=googleguide-20&path=tg/detail/-/0072231742/qid%3D1065590686/sr%3D1-13
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Request for Answer Clarification by
themainnigg-ga
on
09 Jul 2004 00:25 PDT
thanks for the answer. Does googleguide teach how to use the "index
of" command as i have been studying the tutorial and haven't come
accross it yet. Or even the "parent directory" query.
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Clarification of Answer by
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09 Jul 2004 08:28 PDT
themainnigg...
Neither "index of" or "parent directory" are search functions,
within Google, with which I am familiar, as worded. A search
of the googleguide site for those terms produces no useful
results:
"index of" site:www.googleguide.com
://www.google.com/search?q=%22index+of%22+site%3Awww.googleguide.com
"parent directory" site:www.googleguide.com
://www.google.com/search?q=%22parent+directory%22+site%3Awww.googleguide.com
Nor does a search of Google, itself:
"index of" command site:www.google.com
://www.google.com/search?q=%22index+of%22+command+site%3Awww.google.com
"parent directory" site:www.google.com
://www.google.com/search?q=%22parent+directory%22+site%3Awww.google.com
If the functions you are seeking aren't contained on the
following two pages, I would suggest you simply email
Nancy at the email address she provides at the top of
her homepage. She is considerably more knowledgeable
than I with regards to Google search functions, and
I'm sure she'd be happy to help you, if she can.
http://www.googleguide.com/crafting_queries.html
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
If she is unfamiliar with these functions, I would
bet she'll go out of her way to learn about them
and include them in her site!
If you know another way of phrasing these functions, or
can provide an example of them, as I've done with the
searches above, I may be able to assist you, as well.
Otherwise, if you choose not to try contacting Nancy,
you might want to open a new question so that other
researchers who might be familiar with these terms
can have access to the question, however, I think
Nancy would be your best resource, by far.
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Request for Answer Clarification by
themainnigg-ga
on
09 Jul 2004 10:26 PDT
thanks for the long clarification,it was very much appreciated.
However,I learn't typing into google'
intitle:"index of /" "parent directory" +"*.avi" -filetype:htm -filetype:html
you could use it go find specific files. e.t.c You could try it
and see what i mean.
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Clarification of Answer by
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09 Jul 2004 14:26 PDT
Ah! A kind colleague has informed me of a resource for the
parameters of which you are speaking. One of our very own
researchers authors a site called Google Blogoscoped, which
is also an excellent place to find little know facts about
Google. My colleague pointed me to this page on that site,
which discusses what you're talking about:
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2003_09_16_index.html
All of this was new to me, and apparently to the GoogleGuide
site as well, since a search there turned up nothing about
this.
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