false 1342297 4 Everyone loves Google, and it's the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet. There's 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. <I>Google Hacks</I> reveals--and documents in considerable detail--a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won't have even been aware of. Want to find the best price on a pair of leg warmers? Try the Froogle price-searcher that's 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 there's lots more to the Google site than typing in a few keywords and trusting the search engine to yield useful results.<p> If you're a programmer--or even just familiar with a HTML or a scripting language--Google opens up even further. A large part of <I>Google Hacks</I> 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 Google's lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. <I>--David Wall</I><p> <B>Topics covered</B>: 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. 1331884 1 2 2003 Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools total:26|5:5|4:5|3:13|2:2|1:1| 26 89 57 3 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 05 17:29:06 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 17:31:24 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 07:09:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 07:22:46 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Apr 11 23:17:02 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 11 23:18:37 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 20:26:58 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:26:58 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 10:06:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:06:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 12:10:08 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 12:10:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Apr 30 12:43:59 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 12:43:59 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 20 22:38:50 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 22:38:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 06:22:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 06:22:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 31 11:41:29 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:41:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 13:59:26 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 13:54:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:32:42 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 00:32:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 13 08:36:15 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 08:36:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 20 15:52:29 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 15:52:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 20 10:35:03 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 10:35:26 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 17 13:56:08 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 13:56:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 02 21:54:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 21:54:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Dec 30 06:50:07 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 06:50:13 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Dec 25 19:41:16 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 19:41:16 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:54:53 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:54:53 -0800 2008