Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information

by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain

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 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 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!

Genres: Computers, Nonfiction, Reference, Google, Technology, Programming, Internet

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Nassim Daoud · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a long time google searcher, it doesn't add much. Those kinds of books assumes you have tons of research results and you have trouble filtering them. Sometimes it is the case, but where you need help the most it isn't that kind of cases. You need help when you have only 6 results and all of them irrelevant or doesn't answer your particular question.

I've just skimmed through the book that it does a good job at introducing you at each part hello syntax how are you ? what do you do,... next hello google toolbar how are you doing and so on, for a guy acquainted with Google he wouldn't find anything new, I didn't investigate the API programming but I suspect the same observation apply to them

Buy it if you didn't heard about tweaks of searching Google.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a lot to be learned from this book. It's really exciting that the google API allows you to do some fun stuff with it. I ran across this book when trying to do a verbatim search in which the quotation marks were being strangely overridden. I was able to insist that each of the words be present in the results by adding a +plus mark in front of all subsequent words. Think that's how it works, anyway. Good book.

[Catherine Letendre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Très technique, il regroupe 100 trucs pour utiliser Google plus efficacement. Les trucs sont classés en 3 niveaux de difficulté, mais pour quelqu'un avec une connaissance moyenne d'internet, seul le premier niveau est compréhensible. Les deux autres jouent dans le code source.
Aussi, plusieurs des conseils ne sont plus valides puisque le livre date de 2006 et que Google a énormément changé depuis.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book sits next to my desk and has a lot to offer both the layperson and those with more experience with scripting and programming. Get the most recent edition you can find, and scour Google's help pages as well, because Google is constantly updating and changing their algorithms, so tricks in older books may not work as well as they used to.

[Jenne · Rating 3 out of 5]

It turns out that really the cool thing about Google is that you don't actually need to hack it.

So this was interesting but not that useful.

[sanjay]

Good Book you should try

[Aaron Alter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Google search, and google advanced search, don't hint that there are other "unpublished", methods to search the website. This book is full of useful information.

[Renee · Rating 2 out of 5]

On the one hand, it's interesting.

On the other hand, there are four f*****g typoes in the first chapter, and one of them is in the first sentence. Proofreaders? ANYBODY?

[D-r-x-4-n-e-t · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Colin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geeks of teh internets, take notice! If you thought that you knew how to harness the power of Google, prepare for an earth-shattering read. This is the Google API, exposed!

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of information. Great resource. I learned a lot!

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[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book

[Liz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Out of date and really not very useful.

[Dwight Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Search engine tips for better retrieval. Many programming tips for Javascript, PHP, Perl and Python for gmail etc.