Synopses & Reviews
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. We've found ways to get these new services to do even more.
The expanded third edition of Google Hacks is a brand-new and infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of hacks for the new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones. Now you can make a Google Earth movie, visualize your web site traffic with Google Analytics, post pictures to your blog with Picasa, or access Gmail in your favorite email client. Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine a ton of information within Google's reach. And have a lot of fun while doing it:
- Search Google over IM with a Google Talk bot
- Build a customized Google Map and add it to your own web site
- Cover your searching tracks and take back your browsing privacy
- Turn any Google query into an RSS feed that you can monitor in Google Reader or the newsreader of your choice
- Keep tabs on blogs in new, useful ways
- Turn Gmail into an external hard drive for Windows, Mac, or Linux
- Beef up your web pages with search, ads, news feeds, and more
- Program Google with the Google API and language of your choice
For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and bend it to your will!
Synopsis
Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe, including Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. By responding with dozens of updated ones and 25 new hacks, we've made this expanded third edition into a brand-new and infinitely more useful Hacks book for this powerful search engine.
Among the new and updated tips, tricks and scripts are hacks for comparing Google and Yahoo! search results, building your own Google Map, making a Google Earth movie, visualizing your web site traffic with Google Analytics, posting pictures to your blog with Picasa, accessing Gmail in your favorite email client, tracking the blogosphere with advanced blog search, creating a Google Talk bot, and many more.
Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to -- and have a lot of fun while doing it. For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and tweak it to your liking!
Synopsis
Since the last version of this bestselling book, Google has added a dozen new features and services to its expanding universe. By responding with 25 new hacks and dozens of updated ones, the authors have made this expanded edition into a brand-new and infinitely more useful Hacks book for this powerful search engine.
About the Author
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good. Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books. Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think.
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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.
Table of Contents
Foreword; Credits; About the Authors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Why Google Hacks?; How This Book Is Organized; How to Use This Book; How to Run the Hacks; Where to Go for More; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Chapter 1: Web; Google Web Search Basics; Full-Word Wildcards; Special Syntax; Mixing Syntax; Advanced Search; Quick Links; Language Tools; Anatomy of a Search Result; Setting Preferences; Understanding Google URLs; 1 Browse the Google Directory; 2 Glean a Snapshot of Google in Time; 3 Visualize Google Results; 4 Check Your Spelling; 5 Google Phonebook: Let Google's Fingers Do the Walking; 6 Look Up Definitions; 7 Find Directories of Information; 8 Cover Your Bases; 9 Hack Your Own Google Search Form; 10 Compare Google and Yahoo! Search Results; 11 Cover Your Tracks; 12 Improve Google's Memory; 13 Find Out What Google Thinks ___ Is; 14 Browse the World Wide Photo Album; 15 Find Similar Images; 16 Track Stocks; Chapter 2: Advanced Web; Assumptions; 17 Assemble Advanced Search Queries; 18 Like a Version: Search with Synonyms; 19 Capture Google Results in a Google Box; 20 Cook with Google; 21 Permute a Query; 22 Summarize Results by Domain; 23 Measure Google Mindshare; 24 SafeSearch Certify URLs; 25 Search Google Topics; 26 Run a Google Popularity Contest; 27 Scrape Yahoo! Buzz for a Google Search; 28 Compare Google's Results with Other Search Engines; 29 Scattersearch with Yahoo! and Google; 30 Yahoo! Directory Mindshare in Google; 31 Spot Trends with Geotargeting; 32 Bring the Google Calculator to the Command Line; 33 Build Your Own Google Search Feeds; 34 Search Google by Link Graph; 35 Download Google Videos as AVI Files; Chapter 3: News and Blogs; Google News; Google Groups; Blogs; Beyond Google for News and Blogs; 36 Scrape Google News; 37 Visualize Google News; 38 Map Google News; 39 Track Your Favorite Sites; 40 Scrape Google Groups; 41 Seek Out Blog Commentary; 42 Glean Blog-Free Google Results; 43 Find Blog Commentary for Any URL with a Single Click; 44 Track Topics on Blogs over Time; 45 Blog from Your Desktop; 46 Program Blogger with PHP; Chapter 4: Extending Google; 47 Keep Tabs on Your Searches with Google Alerts; 48 Google Your Desktop; 49 Google with Bookmarklets; 50 Google from IRC; 51 Google on the Go; 52 Google over IM; 53 Googlify Your Browser; 54 Search with Google from Any Web Page; 55 Customize the Firefox Quick Search Box; 56 Build a Google Screensaver; 57 Add a Feed to Google Quickly; 58 Tame Long Google URLs; 59 Autocomplete Search Terms as You Type; 60 Refine Your Google Search; 61 Make Google More Accessible for Low-Vision Users; 62 Search for Lyrics on Google; Chapter 5: Google Maps; 63 Think Global, Google Local; 64 Get Around http://maps.google.com; 65 Find Yourself (and Others) on Google Maps; 66 Build Your Own Google Map; 67 Add a Google Map to Your Web Site; 68 Map Flickr Contacts; 69 Fly Across the Earth; Chapter 6: Gmail; Signing Up; Gmail Search Syntax; Gmail Chat; Additional Resources; 70 Create and Use Custom Addresses; 71 Import Your Contacts into Gmail; 72 Import Mail into Gmail; 73 Export Your Gmail; 74 Gmail on the Go; 75 Use Gmail as a Linux Filesystem; 76 Use Gmail as a Hard Drive; 77 Program Gmail; 78 Force Gmail to Use a Secure Connection; Chapter 7: Webmastering; Google's Importance to Webmasters; The Mysterious PageRank; The Equally Mysterious Ranking Algorithm; Tools for Webmasters; Keeping Up with Google's Changes; In a Word: Relax; 79 A Webmaster's Introduction to Google; 80 Get Inside the PageRank Algorithm; 81 26 Steps to 15 KB a Day; 82 Be a Good Search Engine Citizen; 83 Clean Up for a Google Visit; 84 Remove Your Materials from Google; 85 Get the Most Out of AdWords; 86 Generate Google AdWords; 87 Scrape Google AdWords; 88 Add Search to Your Site; 89 Feed News to Your Web Site; Chapter 8: Programming Google; Signing Up and Google's Terms; The Google Web APIs Developer's Kit; Using Your Google API Key; What's WSDL?; Understanding the Google API Query; Understanding the Google API Response; Beyond Web APIs; A Note on Spidering and Scraping; 90 Program Google in Perl; 91 Install the SOAP::Lite Perl Module; 92 Program Google with the Net::Google Perl Module; 93 Loop Around the 10-Result Limit; 94 Program Google in Java; 95 Program Google in Python; 96 Program Google in C# and .NET; 97 Program Google in VB.NET; 98 Program Google with ColdFusion; 99 Program Google with PHP 5; 100 Program Google with VBScript; Appendix 1: Track News About Google; Google Sources; Outside News Sources; Google Employee Blogs; Grassroots Sources; Colophon;