google hacks started @ 7:24pm 3/9/07 on the train..

the foreward is written by the google team! this whole book is propaganda.

contributers secttion is full of awesome nerds.

call on 7;31pm

these nerds.....extensive acknoledgements section.

fun fact:  Google was a play on the word googol: a one followed by a hundred zeros

so far book is going to be very basic.

quotation marks for exact phrases

can capitalize OR for ||

want words to not appear use - 

if it has to have a common word such as the use +the

for synonyms use ~

numer range 1..10

also works like 10.. or ..10

"three * mice"

use obscure words

google doesn't count wildcards in their 10 word limit.

intitle:, intext:, inanchor:,

site:

inurl:, search for files within site..

link:, all the sites that link to a URL.

cache:, daterange:,

filetype:, related:, info:,

phonebook:

you can also mix special syntax

advanced search takes you to a form with all these options.

stopped @ 7:58 on chapter1.9

started @ 3:34pm 3/15/07 i haven't read in 6 DAYS

google can translate

you can change a google url just like a command line program with options

google zeitgeist searches trends

cross promotion: if Google Zeitgeist piques your interest, you might also try the Yahoo! Buzz Index (http://buzz.yahoo.com), a similar collection of statistics around popular Yahoo! Searches:"

google visualizer: touchgraph.com

google spell checker: duh

rphonebook, phonebook, and bphonebook.

google local

add stock codes to your searc for financial info

queryword for dictionary

or define

search news papers like "cab" site:nytimes.com

using site taglines and copyrights for searchterms

repeat words to slant search

daterange:startdate-enddate

use your own googlesearch bar with hidden variables

soople.com helps with advanced google searches

stopped @ 4:38 on chapter2.

chapter 2 @ 4:46

pause @ 4:48

started @5:52pm

good dated quote: Here's that search for Panther, the new Macintosh operating system:

google search to find dates of pages and how many results

stopped @ 5:56 at hack 27

started @ 10:21am 3/16

random page generator

book is code to cut and paste into browsers, terminal, or a webpage

"Google tries to search your query in order, giving higher relevance to words that appear in the same order in a page as they do in your query"

to run Google API scripts u need a developer key.

"Microsoft has a 6.87% Google mindshare of "Linux.""

WSDL - web service definition language.

"insider google searching."

"Yahoo! indexes only a site's main URL, title, and description, while Google builds full-text indexes of entire sites. "

great encouragement!: "This script is only a simple tool. You will make it better, no doubt."

google uses julian day calender

chapter 3 @ 11:02

stopped @ 11:03

started on 3/20 10:05 am

chapter 3 is about google image search....this book sucks.

last section in this chapter: a game called capture the map...ughAGH

searching google news: "source:international_herald_tribune"

subtle : "Add a topic modifier that will significantly narrow your search results, as in: "George Bush" environment crime arson."

google groups

TINY URL.....

google search by email.

"Whether you're a 70-word-per-minute touch typist or you hunt and peck your way through the QWERTY keyboard, you're initially going to find texting a pokey chore. "

"An add-in to the Google Toolbar [Hack #60], Google Compute borrows a few cycles from your computer as it sits idle and applies this computing energy to solve difficult scientific problems around the world." -- borrowed from SETI@home?

AGH! The Search Engine Belt Buckle

stopped @ 10:41am chapter 6. i hate this book.

started 5:30pm 3/21

gmail search terms: to: , from: , etc.

best "hack" yet: Glean a Gmail Invite

plus addresses

GMAILFS to use gmail as a file system

http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/ - pythonscripts to use with gmail

google blog:http://google.blogspace.com/

chapter 9 @ 6:22

done @ 6:33pm