Google Hacks : 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

by Calishain, Tara; Dornfest, Rael

• ISBN13: 9780596004477
• ISBN10: 0596004478
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling data off the Web.You've got a cadre of techniques up your sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always looking for better ways to search.It's the "hacker" in you: not the troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by trying new ways to get things done.If this is you, then you'll find new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in "Google Hacks from O'Reilly's new Hacks Series. "Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to, and helps you have fun while doing it.You'll learn clever and powerful methods for

Table of Contents

Credits	ix
Foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
Searching Google	1	(72)
Setting Preferences	9	(2)
Language Tools	11	(2)
Anatomy of a Search Result	13	(2)
Specialized Vocabularies: Slang and Terminology	15	(4)
Getting Around the 10 Word Limit	19	(1)
Word Order Matters	20	(2)
Repetition Matters	22	(3)
Mixing Syntaxes	25	(4)
Hacking Google URLs	29	(2)
Hacking Google Search Forms	31	(3)
Date-Range Searching	34	(3)
Understanding and Using Julian Dates	37	(1)
Using Full-Word Wildcards	37	(1)
inurl: Versus site:	38	(2)
Checking Spelling	40	(2)
Consulting the Dictionary	42	(1)
Consulting the Phonebook	43	(3)
Tracking Stocks	46	(3)
Google Interface for Translators	49	(4)
Searching Article Archives	53	(1)
Finding Directories of Information	54	(2)
Finding Technical Definitions	56	(3)
Finding Weblog Commentary	59	(2)
The Google Toolbar	61	(2)
The Mozilla Google Toolbar	63	(1)
The Quick Search Toolbar	64	(4)
GAPIS	68	(3)
Googling with Bookmarklets	71	(2)
Google Special Services and Collections	73	(19)
Google Directory	76	(2)
Google Groups	78	(4)
Google Images	82	(2)
Google News	84	(3)
Google Catalogs	87	(1)
Froogle	88	(1)
Google Labs	89	(3)
Third-Party Google Services	92	(16)
XooMLe: The Google API in Plain Old XML	93	(9)
Google by Email	102	(1)
Simplifying Google Groups URLs	103	(2)
What Does Google Think Of...	105	(1)
GooglePeople	106	(2)
Non-API Google Applications	108	(25)
Don't Try This at Home	110	(1)
Building a Custom Date-Range Search Form	111	(2)
Building Google Directory URLs	113	(2)
Scraping Google Results	115	(2)
Scraping Google AdWords	117	(4)
Scraping Google Groups	121	(4)
Scraping Google News	125	(3)
Scraping Google Catalogs	128	(2)
Scraping the Google Phonebook	130	(3)
Introducing the Google Web API	133	(40)
Programming the Google Web API with Perl	142	(2)
Looping Around the 10-Result Limit	144	(2)
The SOAP::Lite Perl Module	146	(4)
Plain Old XML, a SOAP::Lite Alternative	150	(4)
NoXML, Another SOAP::Lite Alternative	154	(5)
Programming the Google Web API with PHP	159	(2)
Programming the Google Web API with Java	161	(2)
Programming the Google Web API with Python	163	(3)
Programming the Google Web API with C# and .NET	166	(3)
Programming the Google Web API with VB.NET	169	(4)
Google Web API Applications	173	(96)
Date-Range Searching with a Client-Side Application	174	(4)
Adding a Little Google to Your Word	178	(1)
Permuting a Query	179	(4)
Tracking Result Counts over Time	183	(4)
Visualizing Google Results	187	(5)
Meandering Your Google Neighborhood	192	(7)
Running a Google Popularity Contest	199	(8)
Building a Google Box	207	(3)
Capturing a Moment in Time	210	(4)
Feeling Really Lucky	214	(3)
Gleaning Phonebook Stats	217	(5)
Performing Proximity Searches	222	(3)
Blending the Google and Amazon Web Services	225	(3)
Getting Random Results (On Purpose)	228	(3)
Restricting Searches to Top-Level Results	231	(5)
Searching for Special Characters	236	(2)
Digging Deeper into Sites	238	(3)
Summarizing Results by Domain	241	(4)
Scraping Yahoo! Buzz for a Google Search	245	(4)
Measuring Google Mindshare	249	(2)
Comparing Google Results with Those of Other Search Engines	251	(4)
SafeSearch Certifying URLs	255	(3)
Syndicating Google Search Results	258	(1)
Searching Google Topics	259	(3)
Finding the Largest Page	262	(3)
Instant Messaging Google	265	(4)
Google Pranks and Games	269	(18)
The No-Result Search (Prank)	269	(2)
Google Whacking	271	(2)
GooPoetry	273	(4)
Creating Google Art	277	(2)
Google Bounce	279	(3)
Google Mirror	282	(2)
Finding Recipes	284	(3)
The Webmaster Side of Google	287	(32)
A Webmaster's Introduction to Google	289	(4)
Generating Google AdWords	293	(1)
Inside the PageRank Algorithm	294	(4)
26 Steps to 15K a Day	298	(6)
Being a Good Search Engine Citizen	304	(3)
Cleaning Up for a Google Visit	307	(2)
Getting the Most out of AdWords	309	(6)
Removing Your Materials from Google	315	(4)
Index	319