Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API (Paperback)

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Google's Web Services provide all kinds of powerful capabilities that you can leverage in your Internet programs. Here's a book that teaches you how to develop practical Google Web Services applications. Learn how to embed the popular search engine in a web site, create applications for optimizing complex searches, automatically monitor the web for specified information, develop custom applications to avoid objectionable material, and much more. Even find out how to use Google Web Services and Amazon Web Services together. In "Mining Google Web Services", you will discover how to develop these real-world applications using VBA, Visual Studio, PHP, Java, and Mobile Devices.

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Google Brings Data Mining to the People!

Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.

Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications. With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results—faster and more easily. Here's a little of what you'll find covered inside:

Improving the speed and accuracy of searches; Performing data mining across the Internet; Using Google Web Services to search a single website; Building search applications for mobile devices; Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability; Analyzing Google data; Creating searches for users with special needs; Discovering new uses for Google; Obtaining historical data using cached pages; Performing spelling checks on any text; Reducing the number of false search hits;

Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (April 23, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782143334
• ISBN-13: 978-0782143331
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #873,481 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)