Greg R. Notess has been writing, speaking, and consulting about Internet information resources and search engines since 1991. A three-time Information Authorship award winner, he is the "On the Net" and "Internet Search Engine Update" columnist for ONLINE. Greg is the author of several Internet books, including his latest, Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers, and the first three editions of Government Information on the Internet.

An internationally known conference speaker on search engines and other Internet topics, Greg has spoken at conferences such as Internet Librarian, Online Information, Web Search University, the Special Libraries Association annual conference, and international meetings in London, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Pretoria, Montreal, Copenhagen, Sydney, Zagreb, and several locations in India.

On the Web, Greg maintains Search Engine Showdown (http://searchengineshowdown.com/), which reviews, compares, analyzes, and tries to keep current with the rapidly changing Web search tools. Greg has consulted for several major (and minor) search engines and is also a professor and reference librarian at Montana State University-Bozeman.