Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: February 2003
Pages: 352
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.
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- Title:
- Google Hacks
- By:
- Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- February 2003
- Pages:
- 352
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-00447-7
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- 0-596-00447-8
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Tara Calishain Tara Calishain is the creator of the site, ResearchBuzz. She is an expert on Internet search engines and how they can be used effectively in business situations. View Tara Calishain's full profile page. -
Rael Dornfest Rael Dornfest is a Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog. View Rael Dornfest's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The tool on the cover of Google Hacks is a pair of locking pliers. Locking pliers are very versatile tools. They can be used for turning, twisting, cutting wire, tightening screws and bolts, and clamping. Locking pliers are specially designed to put pressure on a bolt or nut in such a way that the user can approach the nut or bolt from any angle. A simple squeeze can put up to a ton of pressure between the pliers' jaws, enabling them to lock onto even odd-shaped pieces. Locking pliers include a guarded release, which prevents accidental release or pinching, and a trigger, which unlocks the pliers. Linley Dolby was the production editor and copyeditor for Google Hacks. Sarah Sherman was the proofreader. Emily Quill and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Reg Aubry wrote the index.Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book. The cover image is an original photograph by Edie Freedman. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Mike Sierra to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Linley Dolby. |
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Customer Reviews

7/3/2011 (4 of 5 customers found this review helpful) 1.0NOT HAPPY WITH THE BOOK !!! By NoNickname from KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA - Difficult to understand
- NOT AT ALL PRECISE
- Not comprehensive enough
- Too basic
- Too many errors
12/1/2007 (14 of 15 customers found this review helpful) 1.0Many of the hacks does not work and relay on deprecated API By yaron kahanovitch from Undisclosed 6/25/2004 (6 of 7 customers found this review helpful) 1.0Not too happy with the book By Anonymous from Undisclosed 5/1/2004 (8 of 9 customers found this review helpful) 1.0Not at all happy with the book By Srboisvert from Undisclosed 7/26/2003 (2 of 4 customers found this review helpful) By John Styles from Undisclosed 6/3/2003 (5 of 5 customers found this review helpful) By Stephane Cottin from Undisclosed 4/14/2003 (3 of 4 customers found this review helpful) By Danny Yee from Undisclosed 3/22/2003 (4 of 4 customers found this review helpful) By George Woolley from Undisclosed 3/13/2003 (6 of 6 customers found this review helpful) By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. from Undisclosed
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