Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching

by Rael Dornfest, Tara Calishain

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!

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

480 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.