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I'm happy to announce that I have agreed to terms with John Wiley & Sons to write Google Search and Rescue For Dummies, a follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning Google For Dummies. (There's no truth to that Pulitzer thing.) This book will cover all the new services launched since the first book was published, including local searching (Local, Maps, and Keyhole), Gmail, Groups2, Video (such as it is), Google Suggest, Scholar, Toolbar3, the Deskbar, Google Desktop, Site Flavored Search. Naturally, all the old stuff will be updated—Froogle, News, Answers, operators, answer-engine commands, third-party interfaces, and games (Googlewhacking, Googlebombs, etc.). These Dummies books are less technical than the Google Hacks titles (no code whatsoever), but no less useful to average users who want better search skills. The Pew Center research studies indicate that most people barely know what they're doing in search engines, and neglect most of the underlying power. That's my audience.
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Beyond merely promoting the book, which won't be out until early fall, I'd like to invite community participation. What would you like to see covered in the book? If you're one of the seven (kidding) people who read Google For Dummies, what was missing? What do you love or hate about Google? Send me a dazzling remark (or funny or insightful), and I'll quote you in the book. Send me Google-related links I don't know about. I welcome all suggestions, obscure and obvious. Posted comments get to me in e-mail. I read everything. Thanks.