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Google Pocket Guide
by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, and DJ Adams
Chapter 1 Google Pocket Guide Introduction The success of Google™ in becoming the search engine for everybody is phenomenal and not to be ignored. Google’s simplicity, exemplified by its visual presence on the Web, is skin deep: have you ever stopped to wonder what sort of engine lies beneath the surface of that serene front page, the engine that continues to amaze and astound those that ask it to find things for them? When Google first came onto the search scene, we marveled at how it seemed to instinctively know just what we were looking for. Today, people take that for granted; because Google “just works,” it’s easy to forget the incredible power of that engine. It’s likely that you’ve used Google already to find things on the Web. And it’s probably helped you do just that. This book is about getting the most from Google’s underlying power— understanding how
(2003)
Spidering Hacks
100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
by Kevin Hemenway and Tara Calishain
0 Credits About the Authors Kevin Hemenway, coauthor of Mac OS X Hacks (O’Reilly), is better known as Morbus Iff, the creator of disobey.com, which bills itself as “content for the discontented.” Publisher and developer of more home cooking than you could ever imagine (like the popular open source aggregator AmphetaDesk, the best-kept gaming secret Gamegrene.com, the popular Ghost Sites and Nonsense Network, giggle-inducing articles at the O’Reilly Network, etc.), he has a fondness for expensive bags of beef jerky. Living in Concord, New Hampshire, he can be reached at morbus@disobey.com. Tara Calishain is the editor of the online newsletter ResearchBuzz (http:// www.researchbuzz.com) and author or coauthor of several books, including the O’Reilly best seller Google Hacks. A search engine enthusiast for many years, she began her foray into the world of Perl when Google released its API in April 2002. Contributors The following people contributed their hacks, writing, and
(2008)
Google Hacks
Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information
by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, and Tara Calishain
Chapter 1 C H A P T E R O N E Web Hacks 1–16 Google’s front page is deceptively simple: a search form and a couple of but- tons. Yet that basic interface—so alluring in its simplicity—belies the power of the Google engine underneath and the wealth of information at its dis- posal. If you use Google’s search syntax to its fullest, the Web is your oyster. Searching in Google doesn’t have to be a case of just entering what you’re looking for in the search box and hoping for the best. Google offers you many ways—via special syntax and search options—to refine your search criteria and help Google better understand what you’re looking for. We’ll dig into Google’s powerful, all-but-undocumented special syntax and search options, and show how to use them to their fullest. We’ll cover the basics of Google searching, wildcards, word limits, syntax for special cases,
(2006)
