Yahoo! The Ultimate Desk Reference to the Web

By H.P. Newquist

From Yahoo , the #1 site on the Internet, comes the indispensable reference for getting the most of the Web without hours of searching Yahoo The Ultimate Desk Reference to the Web is a totally new type of book that teaches you how to use the Web effectively and then takes you where you want to go. Whether you're looking for airline tickets, free stuff, history sites, health facts, job leads, auction sites, or consumer reports, this book provides you with the most outstanding sites in an easy-to-use format. Building on the Yahoo principle of making the Web accessible to all users, this book selects sites for their content, longevity, usefulness and special features. Editor H.P. Newquist, a veteran Web surfer and journalist, has worked with Yahoo to save you thousands of hours of digging through cyberspace. This is the only book you need to find what you need--and find it fast Yahoo The Ultimate Desk Reference to the Web features: Authoritative surfing strategies Savvy insider tips Suggestions for enhancing your personal webpages Icons to help you easily identify website features All the basics for new Internet users Comprehensive site reviews Over 1,000 entries covering the best the Web has to offer, including: E-commerce news research shopping sports entertainment health art finance government travel family technology science architecture homework music and just plain Yahoo friendly fun Yahoo is the most popular site on the Internet and has helped over 70 million people worldwide find what they're looking for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062737376
• ISBN13: 9780062737373
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Cool. Get it.

Like the Yahoo website, this book found me some pretty cool sites that weren't in some of the search engines I tried. There are some truly cool sites: The Onion, the All-Music Guide, the Danger Finder, the Cocktail Club, Bartletts, and my favorite, GORP (the Great Outdoor Recreation Page)

Extremely helpful . . . just ask my class!

I got this book to help my 5th grade class with surfing the Internet two weeks ago, and to help us prepare for our part of the school nature project (our part covered natural disasters). Not only did this book list sites on natural disasters but had sites on emergency preparedness and recovery for towns, as well as links to federal agencies and (of course) the best weather sites. We did the whole project using this book as our guide!It also showed us how to get news updates for topics that the class is interested in (the my yahoo! pages), which helped get everyone involved in selecting how we would set up the page for the class. I'm already planning on using it for the first day of school next year. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has to search for lots of research material--or just topics they're interested in. Yahoo!

Yahoo! I can find everything

This book has about a thousand websites that it reviews, and it claims that these are the best of the best. It is actually pretty funny, too, for a reference book, and got me to look at sites I never would have thought to go to.

What a time-saver!

My husband bought me this book because I was always complaining that I hated wasting hours looking for stuff on the Internet. In just poking through it the past few days I have found dozens of great sites. I can't wait to explore some more.