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Review : . . . and dog paddling

15 February 1997

Put off by the title, I went to World Wide Web Searching for Dummies by Brad
Hill (IDG Books $19.99/£18.99 ISBN 0 7645 0022 8) with low
expectations, and they were (barely) met. There are a few handy tips here, but
no attempt to rate the usefulness of different search tools and it misses out
one of my favourites, http://www.infoseek.com, entirely.

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