About the Author

Mary Ellen Bates is the owner of Bates Information Services, Inc., a company that specializes in providing research and analysis to business professionals. She writes regularly for EContent, ONLINE, and Searcher magazines, and she is the contributing editor for The Information Advisor. She is the author of Mining for Gold on the Internet, The Online Deskbook, Super Searchers Cover the World, and Super Searchers Do Business. She is the coauthor of Researching Online For Dummies. She lives near Boulder, Colorado.