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 using the advanced search interface
and the new Google API, including how to build and modify
scripts that can become custom business applications based
on Google. Google Hacks contains 100 tips, tricks and
scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective
in your research. Each hack can be read in just a few
minutes, but can save hours of searching for the right
answers.
Written by experts for intelligent, advanced users,
O'Reilly's new Hacks Series have begun to reclaim the term
"hacking" for the good guys. In recent years the term
"hacker" has come to be associated with those nefarious
black hats who break into other people's computers to
snoop, steal information, or disrupt Internet traffic. But
the term originally had a much more benign meaning, and
you'll still hear it used this way whenever developers get
together. Our new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of
true hackers--the people who drive innovation.
If you're a Google power user, you'll find the technical
edge you're looking for in Google Hacks
Contents
- Searching Google
- Google Special Services and Collections
- Third-Party Google Services
- Non-API Google Applications
- Introducing the Google Web API
- Google Web API Applications
- Google Pranks and Games
- The Webmaster Side of Google
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