About the Authors

Tara Calishain is the editor of ResearchBuzz (http://www.researchbuzz.com), a weekly newsletter on Internet searching and online information resources. She's also a regular columnist for Searcher magazine. She's been writing about search engines and searching since 1996; her recent books include Web Search Garage.

Rael Dornfest is Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media. He assesses, experiments, programs, fiddles, fidgets, and writes for the O'Reilly Network and various O'Reilly publications. Rael is Series Editor of the O'Reilly Hacks series (http://hacks.oreilly.com) and has edited, contributed to, and coauthored various O'Reilly books, including Mac OS X Panther Hacks, Mac OS X Hacks, the Google Pocket Guide, Google: The Missing Manual, Essential Blogging, and Peer to Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies. He is also Program Chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech). In his copious free time, Rael develops bits and bobs of freeware, particularly the Blosxom weblog application (http://www.blosxom.com), is Editor in Chief of MobileWhack (http://www.mobilewhack.com), and (more often than not) maintains his Raelity Bytes weblog (http://www.raelity.org).