Browse the Google Directory
Google has a searchable subject index in addition to its eight-billion-page web search
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Glean a Snapshot of Google in Time
Google Zeitgeist provides a weekly, monthly, and yearly overview of what the Web was interested in
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Graph Google Results over Time
Use Google as a trend watcher
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Visualize Google Results
The TouchGraph Google Browser is the perfect Google complement for those who appreciate visual displays of information.
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Check Your Spelling
Google sometimes takes the liberty of "correcting" what it perceives is a spelling error in your query
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Google Phonebook: Let Google's Fingers Do the Walking
Google makes an excellent phonebook, even to the extent of doing reverse lookups
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Think Global, Google Local
Take web searching to the streets—your street, in fact. Google Local narrows down all those zillions of results to those within range of a particular city, state, or postal code
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Track Stocks
A well-crafted Google query will usually net you company information beyond those provided by traditional stock services
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Consult the Dictionary
Google, in addition to its own spellchecking index, provides hooks into Dictionary.com
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Look Up Definitions
Do you find yourself smiling knowingly when your boss mentions that well-known business principle that you've never heard of? Overwhelmed with "geek speak"? Chances are Google's heard it mentioned—and possibly even defined—somewhere before
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Search Article Archives
Google serves as a handy searchable archive for back issues of online publications
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Find Directories of Information
Use Google to find directories, link lists, and other collections of information
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Seek Out Weblog Commentary
Build queries to search only recent commentary appearing in weblogs
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Cover Your Bases
Try all possible combinations of your search keywords at once
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Repetition Matters
Repetition matters when it comes to keywords weighting your queries
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Search a Particular Date Range
An undocumented but powerful feature of Google's search is the ability to search within a particular date range
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Calculate Google Centuryshare
Determine the year in which Elvis achieved the height of his fame, over what period disco took hold of your nightlife, and when fuel economy actually mattered to anyone
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Hack Your Own Google Search Form
Build your own personal, task-specific Google search form
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Go Beyond Google's Advanced Search
Soople augments the functionality of Google Advanced Search with comprehensive yet easy-to-use forms for every Google occasion
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Use Google Tools for Translators
Create a customized search form for language translation
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Like a Version
Gather a list of what Google thinks are synonyms for a keyword you provide
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Capture Google Results in a Google Box
Add a little box of Google results to any page in your web site
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Build Google Directory URLs
Use ODP category information to build URLs for the Google Directory
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Find Recipes
Let the Google API transform those random ingredients in your fridge into a wonderful dinner
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Track Result Counts over Time
Query Google for each day of a specified date range, counting the number of results at each time index
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Feel Really Lucky
Take the domain in which the first result of a query appears and do more searching within that domain
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Get Random Results (on Purpose)
Surfing random pages can turn up some brilliant finds
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Permute a Query
Run all permutations of query keywords and phrases to squeeze the last drop of results from the Google index
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Weight a Query Keyword
Add more weight to a particular keyword in your Google search query for more targeted results
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Restrict Searches to Top-Level Results
Separate out search results by the depth at which they appear in a site
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Search for Special Characters
Search for the tilde and other special characters in URLs
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Dig Deeper into Sites
Dig deeper into the hierarchies of web sites matching your search criteria
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Summarize Results by Domain
Get an overview of the sorts of domains (educational, commercial, foreign, and so forth) found in the results of a Google query
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Measure Google Mindshare
Measure the Google mindshare of a particular person within a query domain
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SafeSearch Certify URLs
Feed URLs into Google's SafeSearch to determine whether they point at questionable content
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Search Google Topics
Run queries against some of the available Google API specialty topics
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Find the Largest Page
We all know about Feeling Lucky with Google. But how about Feeling Large?
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Perform Proximity Searches
GAPS performs a proximity check between two words
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Meander Your Google Neighborhood
Google Neighborhood attempts to detangle the Web by building a "neighborhood" of sites around a URL
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Run a Google Popularity Contest
Put two terms, spelling variations, animals, vegetables, or minerals head to head in a Google-based popularity contest.
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Scrape Yahoo! Buzz for a Google Search
A proof-of-concept hack scrapes the buzziest items from Yahoo! Buzz and submits them to a Google search
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Compare Google's Results with Other Search Engines
Compare Google search results with results from other search engines
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Scattersearch with Yahoo! and Google
Sometimes, illuminating results can be found when scraping from one site and feeding the results into the API of another. With scattersearching, you can narrow down the most popular related results, as suggested by Yahoo! and Google
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Yahoo! Directory Mindshare in Google
How does link popularity compare in Yahoo!'s searchable subject index versus Google's full-text index? Find out by calculating mindshare!
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Glean Weblog-Free Google Results
With so many weblogs being indexed by Google, you might worry about too much emphasis on the hot topic of the moment. In this hack, we'll show you how to remove the weblog factor from your Google results
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Spot Trends with Geotargeting
Compare the relative popularity of a trend or fashion in different locations, using only Google and Directi search results
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Bring the Google Calculator to the Command Line
Perform feats of calculation on the command line, powered by the magic of the Google calculator
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Build a Custom Date Range Search Form
Search only Google pages indexed today, yesterday, the last 7 days, or last 30 days
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Search Yesterday's Index
Monitor a set of queries for new finds added to the Google index yesterday
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Borrow a Corporate or Product Logo
Add a bit of spice to your presentation or school report by using a corporate, project, product, or service logo
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Browse the World Wide Photo Album
Take a random stroll through the world's photo album using some clever Google Image searches (and, optionally, a smidge of programming know-how)
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Google Cartography: Street Art in Your Neighborhood
car⋅tog⋅ra⋅phy n. The art or technique of making maps or charts
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Capture the Map

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Scrape Google News
Scrape Google News Search results to get at the latest from thousands of aggregated news sources
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Visualize Google News
Watch stories aggregated by Google News unfold over time, coverage broaden and fade, and hotspots emerge and fade again into the background
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Go Deeper into Groups with Google Groups 2
Google Groups 2 merges Usenet news with mailing lists
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Scrape Google Groups
Pull results from Google Groups searches a comma-delimited file
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Simplify Google Groups URLs
If the Google Groups URLs are a little too unwieldy, the Google Groups Simplifier will cut them down to size
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Keep Tabs on Your Searches with Google Alerts
Receive alerts in your email Inbox or RSS reader when something you're after makes its way into the Google Web index or a Google News story
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Add Google to Your Toolbar or Desktop
Google from wherever you are without skipping a beat, thanks to an assortment of browser search boxes, toolbars, and desktop applications
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Google Your Desktop
Google your desktop and the rest of your filesystem, mailbox, and instant messenger conversations—even your browser cache
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Google with Bookmarklets
Create interactive bookmarklets to perform Google functions from the comfort of your own browser
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Google from Word
Add a little Google to Microsoft Word
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Google by Email
Access 10 of Google's search results at a time via email
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Google by Instant Messenger
Accessing Google with AOL Instant Messenger
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Google from IRC
Performing Google searches from IRC is not only convenient, but also efficient. See how fast you can Google for something on IRC and click on the URL highlighted by your IRC client
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Google on the Go
Being on the go and away from your laptop or desktop doesn't mean leaving Google behind
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Visit the Google Labs
Google Labs, as the name suggests, sports Google's experiments, fun little hacks, and inspirational uses of the Google engine and database
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Find Out What Google Thinks ___ Is
What does Google think of you, your friends, your neighborhood, or your favorite movie?
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The Search Engine Belt Buckle
Take the Web out for a night on the town
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Glean a Gmail Invite
Ask a friend, acquaintance, or stranger; swap, auction, or finagle. A Gmail invite is hard to come by—but not that hard
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Create and Use Custom Addresses
Make up an unlimited number of arbitrary email addresses to use when signing up for something, making a purchase online, or tracking a conversation
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Import Your Contacts into Gmail
Data entry's a drag. Export your contacts from an existing web mail service, desktop email application, or database, and import them into your Gmail address book
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Import Mail into Gmail
Moving to Gmail doesn't have to mean starting from scratch. Forward mail in bulk from your computer or other web mail service to your Gmail account
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Export Your Gmail
Back up or export your Gmail messages to your computer for safe-keeping or offline reading
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Take a Walk on the Lighter Side
Gmail with grace from any web browser, whether JavaScript-disabled, not yet supported, text-only, or on a PDA or mobile phone
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Gmail on the Go
You can take it with you ... Gmail on your mobile phone, that is
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Use Gmail as a Linux Filesystem
Repurpose your gig of Gmail as a networked filesystem
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Use Gmail as a Windows Drive
Drop a gig of Gmail storage on your Windows desktop and treat it just about like any other drive
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Program Gmail
Try your hand at writing an alternative interface to Gmail using the freely available Python, Perl, PHP, Java, and .NET libraries and API frameworks
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Get the Most out of AdWords
Guest commentary by Andrew Goodman of Traffick on how to write great AdWords
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Generate Google AdWords
You've written the copy and you've planned the budget. Now, what keywords are you going to use for your ad?
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Scrape Google AdWords
Scrape the AdWords from a saved Google results page into a form suitable for importing into a spreadsheet or database
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Determine the Worth of AdWords Words
Harness the Google AdWords marketplace to guesstimate the value of a keyword or phrase in online advertising
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Serve Backup Ads
Use AdSense's built-in (and rather thoughtful) ability to serve ads from alternate URLs when there are no targeted ads to offer
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A Webmaster's Introduction to Google
Steps to take for optimal Google indexing of your site
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Get Inside the PageRank Algorithm
Delve into the inner workings of the Google PageRank algorithm and how it affects results
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26 Steps to 15K a Day
Hot and cold running content is what draws visitors in to your web site
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Be a Good Search Engine Citizen
Five don'ts and one do for getting your site indexed by Google
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Clean Up for a Google Visit
Before you submit your site to Google, make sure that you've cleaned it up to make the most of your indexing
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Remove Your Materials from Google
Remove your content from Google's various web properties
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Program Google in Perl
This simple script illustrates the basics of programming the Google Web API with Perl and lays the groundwork for the lion's share of hacks to come
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Install the SOAP::Lite Perl Module
Install the SOAP::Lite Perl module, backbone of the vast majority of hacks in this book
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Program Google with the Net::Google Perl Module
A crisp, clean, object-oriented alternative to programming Google with Perl and the SOAP::Lite module
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Loop Around the 10-Result Limit
If you want more than 10 results, you'll have to loop
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Program Google in PHP
A simple example of programming the Google Web API with PHP and the NuSOAP module
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Program Google in Java
Programming the Google Web API in Java is a snap, thanks to the functionality packed into the Google Web API Developer's Kit
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Program Google in Python
Programming the Google Web API with Python is simple and clean, as these scripts and interactive examples demonstrate
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Program Google in C# and .NET
Create GUI and console Google search applications with C# and the .NET framework
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Program Google in VB.NET
Create GUI and console Google search applications with Visual Basic and the .NET framework
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