{"id":20710,"date":"2018-03-01T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=20710"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:04:34","slug":"new-book-harnessing-the-power-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/new-book-harnessing-the-power-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Harnessing the Power of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that I missed the publication of a new book about Google Search. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Harnessing-Power-Google-Researcher-Should-ebook\/dp\/B072PSFDGP\/\">Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know<\/a><\/em> was released in summer 2017, when I wasn&#8217;t paying much attention to news. It&#8217;s a short primer of 150 pages and the contents list looks very encouraging. These contents seem to chime with a blog review and an Amazon review, which both suggest the book is aimed at&#8230; &#8220;librarians who will be working with researchers&#8221;. Implying researchers of the type who will expect to be working with expert Google users rather than Google-phobics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/03\/google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/03\/google.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20712\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible to peer inside the book via Google Books. Sadly this shows that the book doesn&#8217;t mention the rich possibilities of Google Custom Search, as a keyword search of the text shows no results for either &#8220;custom search&#8221; or &#8220;CSE&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/03\/contents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/03\/contents.jpg?w=335\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20711\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that the book has yet to receive any open\/public reviews from librarians. But the business researcher blog <em>Infonista<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/infonista.com\/2017\/09\/04\/use-google-for-scholarly-research-yep-and-heres-how\/\">has a polished and informative review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that I missed the publication of a new book about Google Search. Harnessing the Power of Google: What &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/new-book-harnessing-the-power-of-google\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}