How to Do Everything with Yahoo! - Softcover

Neibauer, Alan

9780072125610: How to Do Everything with Yahoo!

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072125616 ISBN 13: 9780072125610

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

This book will be another boost to this already hot series. It describes in detail the true expansiveness and utility of the site; Yahoo! is not only an extremely popular search engine, it is the most popular site on the Internet! It’s a complete portal to the World Wide Web. It is so complete in fact, that you don’t even need your own Internet account to get e-mail, you can create your own Web site, send and receive instant messages, and even sponsor your own chat group.

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Review:

You can do just about anything on Yahoo!--the site that started out as a popular Web subject tree and has morphed into a centre for doing everything from finding a job to finding a date. How to Do Everything with Yahoo! documents the site's capabilities as they were in the third quarter of 2000. Essentially, author Alan Neibauer talks about Yahoo! as if it's a powerful application rather than a Web site. This is an appropriate approach (on Yahoo's part as well as Niebauer's). Even if you use the site all the time, this book will likely introduce you to cool things you can do with or on the popular portal that you never knew existed.

The book begins at the registration process that gets you a free Web-based e-mail account. Calendar management, maps, auctions, travel and the rest of the services your registration gives you access to, including the surfer-friendly subject tree that made Yahoo! famous in the first place, are covered next. You will find lots of references to other sites too. One potential flaw lies in the explicit procedures advising the reader to "choose this, click that"--they aren't well-suited to Web services like Yahoo! and they too often become obsolete without notice anyway. --David Wall

About the Author:

Alan Neibauer (Huntington Valley, PA) is the best-selling author of Corel WordPerfect Suite 8: The Official Guide, Access 97 for Busy People, Microsoft Word for Windows 95 Made Easy, and the soon-to-be published Office 2000 Made Easy and WordPerfect Office 2000: The Official Guide. Since 1985, he has published over 30 popular books on both hardware and software. Neibauer has spent over 14 years teaching computer science at the high school and college level and is also a popular corporate trainer in Microsoft Access and other Office Applications. Mr Neibauer is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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