Why Google Hacks?
"Hacks" are generally considered to
be "quick-n-dirty" solutions to
programming problems or interesting techniques for getting a task
done. But what does this kind of hacking have to do with Google?
Considering the size of the Google index, there are many times when
you might want to do a particular kind of search and you get too many
results for the search to be useful. Or you may want to do a search
that the current Google interface does not support.
The idea of Google Hacks is not to give you some
exhaustive manual of how every command in the Google syntax works,
but rather to show you some tricks for making the best use of a
search and show applications of the Google API that perform searches
that you can't perform using the regular Google
interface. In other words, hacks.
Dozens of programs and interfaces have sprung up from the Google API.
Both games and serious applications using Google's
database of web pages are available from everybody from the serious
programmer to the devoted fan (like me).
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