Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for
Finding and Using the Worlds
Information by Tara Calishain
Google Hacks Comes Packed With Usage Tips Not To Be Found Elsewhere.
Everyone loves Google, and its the first place many people turn to locate
information on the Internet. Theres a big gap, though, between knowing
that you can use Google to get advance information on your blind date and
having a handle on the considerable roster of fact-finding tools that the site
makes available. Google Hacks reveals--and documents in considerable
detail--a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers wont
have even been aware of. Want to find the best price on a pair of leg
warmers? Try the Froogle price-searcher thats hidden within the Google
site. Interested in finding weblog commentary about a particular subject?
Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest call your attention to the special Google
syntaxes for that purpose. This book makes it clear that theres lots more to
the Google site than typing in a few keywords and trusting the search
engine to yield useful results. If youre a programmer--or even just
familiar with a HTML or a scripting language--Google opens up even
further. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API
(the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and
other programmers resources. For example, the authors include a simple

Perl application that queries the Google engine with terms specified by the
user. They also document XooMLe, which delivers Google results in XML
form. In brief, this is the best compendium of Googles lesser-known
capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. --David
Wall Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search
engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches,
image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large
collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced
search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the
Google API and simple scrapes of results pages, while further coverage
addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google
keyword searches.
Personal Review: Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and
Using the Worlds Information by Tara Calishain
1. Word order matters
2. repetition of words ignores the repeating words with no search results
3. inanchor, inurl, intitle, site
inanchor:oreilly -inurl: oreilly -site: edu
oreilly in anchor text
oreilly not in the url
site is not edu (limits to a certain domain)
intitle:OSTEOPOROSIS inurl:links
OSTEOPORSIS in the title
links in the url
OSTEOPOROSIS in the anchor text
intitle:biology inurl:help
Takes you to a manageable size of 602 for help in biology.
4. Google does not support stemming (moon, moonlight, moonshot)
Google does support wild card pattern *
Google does have a ten word limit
three * mice
returns
three Blind mice
three white mice
5. daterange:startdate-enddate
[...]
6. Phonebook searchs:
phonebook: searches the entire google phonebook
rphonebook: searches residental listings only
bphonebook: search business listings only

phonebook:nelson id
7: Finding articles
[...] "ADO" or "ODBC"
Searches the site www.listensoftware for all articles about ADO
"ODBC"
8. Searchable directorys
"what's new" "what's cool" directory SAUERKRAUT
"what's new" categories sauerkraut (recipe)
"what's new" listings sauerkraut (links to recipes)
9. GAPIS
[...]
Standalone application that takes advantage of the Google API search
component.
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