Google Hacks

Google Hacks reveals–and documents in considerable detail–a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won’t have even been aware of. Try the Froogle price-searcher that’s hidden within the Google site. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and other programmers’ resources. In brief, this is the best compendium of Google’s lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches, image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the Google API and simple “scrapes” of results pages, while further coverage addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google keyword searches.

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Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information.Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe: Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. Few of today’s web-savvy would contest Google’s superiority among search engines. Google Hacks is another in O’Reilly’s Hacks series, “Industrial Strength Tips and Tools”. In this case, 100 recipes for just about every imaginable use for Google. The first few chapters are targeted at the general end-user, describing in detail all of the various syntaxes you can use when searching with Google, as well as introducing the various topical collections (U.S. government, Linux, Mac, etc.), and other tools (Google Groups, Google News, etc.,) available. Also covered are various tools you can use to (legally) ‘scrape’ Google search results for further analysis. These chapters will be useful for just about anyone who uses Google. Fool your friends with 0-result searches, let Google write poetry or a recipe for you. Draw pictures with Google Groups, or see just how good you are at Google-Whacking.