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Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching Second Edition

by Rael Dornfest (Author), Tara Calishain (Author)

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Whether you're a high school student looking for the latest info on your favorite rock group, or a seasoned attorney researching an old case, you're probably using Google. It seems like everyone is. And who can blame them? With access to more than three million documents in over 30 languages, Google is a researcher's dream. It's no wonder, then, that nearly 150 million Google searches are conducted each day. As a result, people are hungry to learn new ways to maximize its usefulness.Truth is, there are dozens upon dozens of techniques to learn--each designed to make your Google search more time-efficient, more productive, and more fun. And Google Hacks, Second Edition has the inside scoop on them all.An absolute must-have guide for anyone who searches the Internet--and these days that's just about everybody--Google Hacks, Second Edition takes its best-selling predecessor one step further. In plain language, Google Hacks, Second Edition is an updated collection of industrial-strength, real-world tested solutions to practical research problems.Best of all, each of its 100 hacks are easy to read and digest--no confusing terminology or extraneous information to hamper your understanding. And although they can be read in just a few short minutes, when put to use, they can easily save you hours of research time. Now that's bang for your buck!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; Second edition (January 8, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596008574
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.46 x 1.02 x 9.06 inches

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Tijiki Mojo

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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2005

The average user will get very little out of this. The advanced user will benefit greatly. If you are just some guy who uses Google a couple times a day, don't bother. If you are into high-teck serious queries, and are an expirienced computer user, this book will be invaluable.

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sfarmer76

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Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2005

Google Hacks $24.95 US, is a manuscript for the Google aficionado. This volume is a collaboration between Tara Calishain & Rael Dornfest. If you've used the internet for very long, those names are familiar. Tara edits the search engine newsletter Research Buzz, please subscribe to it online. Rael likewise pens a blog with a large following -- called Raelity Bites -- please bookmark that too.

Of course, before I slather them with praise... let me just highlight a certain group the authors concede as having offered them valuable assistance; Tim Allwine, Paul Bausch, Erik Benson, Antoni Chan, Tanya Harvey Ciampi, Peter Drayton, Andrew Flegg, Andrew Goodman, Kevin Hemenway, Mark Horrell, Judy Hourihan, Steven Johnson, Stuart Langridge, Beau Lebens, Mark Pilgrim, Chris Sells, Alex Shapiro, Kevin Shay, Gary Stock, Brett Tabke and Matt Webb. The duo felt their friends all deserved a plug, so I'm pleased to do some name-dropping on their behalf.

Of all the material covered in Google Hacks, two sections sparkle -- Searching Google and Third-Party Google Services. The first explains how to comb Google with assorted bits, bobs, and fishhooks tailored to yield what you're looking for. These specialized syntaxes include: cache:, daterange:, filetype:, inanchor:, info:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, link:, phonebook:, related:, and site:. For example: intitle:Ed McBain may get you better search results than a general query. Try using all these syntaxes! The authors exceed basic Boolean search terms (blank AND blank, blank OR blank, blank -blank) to touch upon: Circumventing the 10 Word Limit, Date-Range Searches, Finding Directories, Finding Technical Definitions, Finding Blog Comments, Googling with Bookmarklets, Language Tools & Translation, Mixing & Using Syntaxes, Searching Article Archives, Setting Preferences, Specialized Vocabularies, The Google Toolbar, Tracking Stocks, Using Full-Word Wildcards, and amazingly enough, Word Order.

Google Hacks goes to great lengths to inform you, in Third-Party Google Services, that Google is more than just a search engine. Other companies are building or enhancing their businesses on top of Google's platform, such as Avaquest (refined people search), BMW (voice activated search), Logitech (Google keyboard), and CapeClear (Google by email).

Looking beyond these chapters, you'll find other relevant tips if you maintain a website or are planning one. The Webmaster Side of Google is great reading because it points out that most internet users have their eyes on Google at some point during the day. This wasn't always the case. Before Brin & Page's search engine became top dog around early-2000, Excite, Hotbot, and WebCrawler were the hot commodities, and webmasters had to submit to multiple sites to compete for eyeballs & attention. Now all web clicks lead to Google, mainly because of their numerous partnerships with titans like AOL and Yahoo! If you have a website, you can raise money with it by advertising with Google's AdWords program, to draw traffic in. But first you'll need to submit your pages for indexing. You can do this by visiting google.com/addurl.html.

Even if you don't have a website, this chapter is worth reading, because it lists several ways you can get content removed from Google. If you're a parent, you can kill explicit pages that accidentally show up in a Google SafeSearch by reporting the offending page to safesearch@google.com. For a more standard complaint about a search result, send an email to search-quality@google.com. You can also remove yourself from the Google Phonebook if you choose, but it'll cost you a stamp. Send that request on business letterhead to: Google PhoneBook Removal, 2400 Bayshore Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.

Having a residential phone number removed from GooglePhonebook is easier though. Just complete the form at google.com/help/pbremoval.html. I've found some of these tips to be useful myself, so I've summarized them here in full, but by all means, please buy the book, 'cause there's only so much that I can cover in under 1,000 words.

As for Chapter 5. Introducing the Google Web API, and Chapter 6. Google Web API Applications, the jury's still out. I've tried withholding judgment about these sections, because advanced users will enjoy reading about the API, but for people that aren't interested in building an application on top of Google, the tips therein may seem too lofty.

Clearly, people that buy a book with Hack in the title are interested in gags, games, jokes, and pranks -- so considering that -- Calishain & Dornfest are kind enough to indulge us with more than a few examples in a trim fifteen page section. My favorite of these is the GoogleMirror prank. (see page 282) Try this out at a public library sometime, and be sure to hide the address bar before you walk away from the LCD. It's guaranteed to stump the Librarians!

Kept you entertained have I? Blame it all on Rael and Tara. I bet they're quite the terror when they're in the same room, buzzed on coffee and chatting about the net. At least that's the feeling I get from reading their softback.

For their time-saving solutions, the enthusiastic pair certainly deserves their accolades. If you acquire this one, pick up the 2nd Edition from Amazon because it includes dozens of refreshed hacks, and 25 entirely new ones. My only caveat with Google Hacks? You'll probably want to pick up an assortment of titles in the O'Reilly Hack Series after reading this. These titles include, but are not limited to; Amazon Hacks, eBay Hacks, iPod & iTunes Hacks, TiVo Hacks Windows XP Hacks, Wireless Hacks, and Word Hacks.

Lastly, let me just say I became reacquainted with the publisher of this book at the Gateway Country computer store a number of years ago, and you couldn't meet a nicer person. Mr. O'Reilly is a class act.

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Ben Rothke

Indispensable Google reference

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2005

Google is like an iceberg - a huge entity, of which only a small amount is visible. Millions of casual users find Google quite usable and helpful. Yet there are many who would like to take advantage of the full capabilities of Google. Once harnessed, Google becomes an even more invaluable and indispensable tool.

Like an iceberg, there is a giant mass hidden beyond Google's simple interface. There are now more than 30 books on Google and two of the most beneficial ones are those that detail those hidden powers of Google, namely Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching and Google Hacking for Penetration Testers. Rather than overlapping, these books are complementary and focus on different uses of Google.

Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching is helpful reference for any Google user who wants to get the most out of their searching experience. The book's 9 chapters detail 100 tips for different functionalities within Google. The bulk of the book is in the first 2 chapters, which contain 49 hacks for use of the basic Google Web interface. Hacks such as optimizing search entries, proximity searches, and Google Indexes are detailed. The book does a very good job in showing how to perform specific searches to glean the most-needed information.

The other chapters detail how to optimize often less-used areas of Google including images, news, and groups, and Gmail (the Google mail application).

Chapter 9, Programming Google, is valuable for programmers. The chapter details the use of the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by third-party software). The book includes Perl scripts that can query the Google engine with terms specified by the user.

Much of the information in the book can be found in various parts Google itself, but the key is to know where to find it and how to look for it. Google Hacks provides that information in a well-written and organized format for those that need the assistance. If any of your work relies on using Google, Google Hacks should be part of it.

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Jack D. Herrington

An improvement on a great original

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2005

This is a fine update to an excellent original work. If you aren't familiar the series there are one hundred hacks that cover a wide variety of, in this case, Google related topics. For example, how to determine the word of specific Google AdWords words. Each hack runs a couple of pages in length and has short code examples, usually in Perl, where appropriate.

A wide variety of Google topics are covered. From the basics of search use, through desktop integration, gmail, AdWords and finally into web page optimization. Part of this new version is the gmail content.

This was an excellent book the first time around. This second version brings it up to date with Google enhancements and gmail. Given the ever-widening variety of services my guess is that O'Reilly will need to split the coverage among a number of books in the future.

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Craig A.

Opening a whole new world.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2006

This book, of many I've written in my 16yrs in IT, is easily the most elucidating. It takes a seemingly boring subject, searching, and by teaching the subtleties ans nuances of Google's published APIs, rich query syntax, and gi-normous amount of index data, shows us some paradigm-shifting ways to leverage Google's powerful and fast engine to accomplish tasks you might not even associate with searching. Wow.

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2005

If you think you know how to use Google, read this book and you will see how you only use a tiny part of Google.

There is a lot of power behind Google and Google Hacks tells you in excellent details how to take advantage to all the great power behind Google.

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