review by
Chris Smolyk, May 2005

The amazing thing about reading this book, which is about all the hidden or unknown features and functions of Google is that it is so totally unnecessary. I conclude this from having shared the book with numerous other computer users who are pretty much at my own status....mid-level users with experience that is long in years but not deep in the ways of command line and such.

My reaction to the book was...."Who Knew? I mean....Google is a search engine, works great, what more do you need?" So as you flip through the book, you see that every page is like opening a door onto another room. There's just so much.

I see the point to having this book by your computer, and each day looking at the next example....and after a year or so, you'd be a real Google-guru compared to the common user. Also, I imagine that those more handy with command line would be able to skim through the topics and find a few gems that would just rock....improve their life, working skills and overall bragging rights.

Perhaps the reason I'm still such a neophyte with command line is that I have not made a program of having books like this and doing a "one-a-day" exercise from the book.