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Copyright Dedication Credits About the Authors Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Preface Why Google Hacks? How This Book Is Organized How to Use This Book Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact Us Chapter 1. Searching Google Section 1.1. Hacks #1-28 Section 1.2. What Google Isn't Section 1.3. What Google Is Section 1.4. Google Basics Section 1.5. The Special Syntaxes Section 1.6. Advanced Search Hack 1. Setting Preferences Hack 2. Language Tools Hack 3. Anatomy of a Search Result Hack 4. Specialized Vocabularies: Slang and Terminology Hack 5. Getting Around the 10 Word Limit Hack 6. Word Order Matters Hack 7. Repetition Matters Hack 8. Mixing Syntaxes Hack 9. Hacking Google URLs Hack 10. Hacking Google Search Forms Hack 11. Date-Range Searching Hack 12. Understanding and Using Julian Dates Hack 13. Using Full-Word Wildcards Hack 14. inurl: Versus site: Hack 15. Checking Spelling Hack 16. Consulting the Dictionary Hack 17. Consulting the Phonebook Hack 18. Tracking Stocks Hack 19. Google Interface for Translators Hack 20. Searching Article Archives Hack 21. Finding Directories of Information Hack 22. Finding Technical Definitions Hack 23. Finding Weblog Commentary Hack 24. The Google Toolbar Hack 25. The Mozilla Google Toolbar Hack 26. The Quick Search Toolbar Hack 27. GAPIS Hack 28. Googling with Bookmarklets Chapter 2. Google Special Services and Collections Section 2.1. Hacks #29-35 Section 2.2. Google's Current Offerings Hack 29. Google Directory Hack 30. Google Groups Hack 31. Google Images Hack 32. Google News Hack 33. Google Catalogs Hack 34. Froogle Hack 35. Google Labs Chapter 3. Third-Party Google Services Section 3.1. Hacks #36-40 Section 3.2. Of Google, but Not Google Section 3.3. Tinkering with the UI Section 3.4. Expanding the Options with the Google API Section 3.5. Thinking Way Outside the Box Hack 36. XooMLe: The Google API in Plain Old XML Hack 37. Google by Email Hack 38. Simplifying Google Groups URLs Hack 39. What Does Google Think Of... Hack 40. GooglePeople Chapter 4. Non-API Google Applications Section 4.1. Hacks #41-49 Hack 41. Don't Try This at Home Hack 42. Building a Custom Date-Range Search Form Hack 43. Building Google Directory URLs Hack 44. Scraping Google Results Hack 45. Scraping Google AdWords Hack 46. Scraping Google Groups Hack 47. Scraping Google News Hack 48. Scraping Google Catalogs Hack 49. Scraping the Google Phonebook Chapter 5. Introducing the Google Web API Section 5.1. Hacks #50-59 Section 5.2. Why an API? Section 5.3. Signing Up and Google's Terms Section 5.4. The Google Web APIs Developer's Kit Section 5.5. Using the Key in a Hack Section 5.6. What's WSDL? Section 5.7. Understanding the Google API Query Section 5.8. Understanding the Google API Response Hack 50. Programming the Google Web API with Perl Hack 51. Looping Around the 10-Result Limit Hack 52. The SOAP::Lite Perl Module Hack 53. Plain Old XML, a SOAP::Lite Alternative Hack 54. NoXML, Another SOAP::Lite Alternative Hack 55. Programming the Google Web API with PHP Hack 56. Programming the Google Web API with Java Hack 57. Programming the Google Web API with Python Hack 58. Programming the Google Web API with C# and .NET Hack 59. Programming the Google Web API with VB.NET Chapter 6. Google Web API Applications Section 6.1. Hacks #60-85 Section 6.2. The Ingenuity of Millions Section 6.3. Learning to Code Section 6.4. What You'll Find Here Section 6.5. Finding More Google API Applications Section 6.6. The Possibilities Aren't Endless, but They're Expanding Hack 60. Date-Range Searching with a Client-Side Application Hack 61. Adding a Little Google to Your Word Hack 62. Permuting a Query Hack 63. Tracking Result Counts over Time Hack 64. Visualizing Google Results Hack 65. Meandering Your Google Neighborhood Hack 66. Running a Google Popularity Contest Hack 67. Building a Google Box Hack 68. Capturing a Moment in Time Hack 69. Feeling Really Lucky Hack 70. Gleaning Phonebook Stats Hack 71. Performing Proximity Searches Hack 72. Blending the Google and Amazon Web Services Hack 73. Getting Random Results (On Purpose) Hack 74. Restricting Searches to Top-Level Results Hack 75. Searching for Special Characters Hack 76. Digging Deeper into Sites Hack 77. Summarizing Results by Domain Hack 78. Scraping Yahoo! Buzz for a Google Search Hack 79. Measuring Google Mindshare Hack 80. Comparing Google Results with Those of Other Search Engines Hack 81. SafeSearch Certifying URLs Hack 82. Syndicating Google Search Results Hack 83. Searching Google Topics Hack 84. Finding the Largest Page Hack 85. Instant Messaging Google Chapter 7. Google Pranks and Games Section 7.1. Hacks #86-92 Hack 86. The No-Result Search (Prank) Hack 87. Google Whacking Hack 88. GooPoetry Hack 89. Creating Google Art Hack 90. Google Bounce Hack 91. Google Mirror Hack 92. Finding Recipes Chapter 8. The Webmaster Side of Google Section 8.1. Hacks #93-100 Section 8.2. Google's Preeminence Section 8.3. Google's Importance to Webmasters Section 8.4. The Mysterious PageRank Section 8.5. The Equally Mysterious Algorithm Section 8.6. Google's Ad Programs Section 8.7. Keeping Up with Google's Changes Section 8.8. In a Word: Relax Hack 93. A Webmaster's Introduction to Google Hack 94. Generating Google AdWords Hack 95. Inside the PageRank Algorithm Hack 96. 26 Steps to 15K a Day Hack 97. Being a Good Search Engine Citizen Hack 98. Cleaning Up for a Google Visit Hack 99. Getting the Most out of AdWords Hack 100. Removing Your Materials from Google Colophon Index
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