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December 06, 2004Search for Keywords in Sets of LinksGoogle Blogoscoped has come up with a nifty thing which I think uses the Google API. It's available at http://blog.outer-court.com/neighborsearch/ . What you do is enter a keyword. Then you...Read the rest of entry "Search for Keywords in Sets of Links" here. October 06, 2004User-Guided Search Refining in GoogleDespite the fact that the Google API hasn't been updated in over two years, people keep doing Cool Things with it. The latest Cool Thing I've seen is the very...Read the rest of entry "User-Guided Search Refining in Google" here. September 07, 2004Gmail-Powered BloggingGallina version 0.1, a proof of concept to post to a 'blog with Gmail messages. Gmail doesn't have an API, I don't think, so I wonder why all the brainpower...September 01, 2004A Google to RSS ImplementationIf you wanted to get Google search results as an RSS feed but didn't want to a) install software on your server or b) get an account at Google Alert...Read the rest of entry "A Google to RSS Implementation" here. August 29, 2004The GMail FilesystemGmailFS: "GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium." Very early, the author promises it'll have bugs, written in Python (not that there's...August 10, 2004G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across TimeYou might be interested in the popularity of keywords in Google for a variety of reasons -- you might be doing research on a technology, or you might be trying...Read the rest of entry "G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across Time " here. June 24, 2004Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty BookmarkletDavid Crossman has made a sweet little Google hack for all you folks who want comma-delimited Google search results. And it's in a bookmarklet! It's available at http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/1079 . Run...Read the rest of entry "Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet" here. May 27, 2004FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish StuffPhilipp Lenssen, a Web developer from Germany, has used the Google API to create a search interface called FindForward. The site is at FindForward.com but I'm going to point you...March 16, 2004Cookin' With Google UpdatedIn light of recent coverage in Wired and New York Times, and some requests, I've added new categories to Cookin' with Google. They're in the pull-down menu under the query...January 22, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJackWhen I'm in "brainstorming ideas for hacks" mode, I come up with some weird ideas. I thought about a random password generator using Google, and then a "Google Hangman" game,...Read the rest of entry "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJack " here. January 21, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarkletsIf you've spent any time munging around Google's search form, you know that the switch to get an "I'm Feeling Lucky" result without going to Google's search result list is...Read the rest of entry "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarklets" here. January 20, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search SinkerIf you read Google Hacks you know that Google sorts results differently depending on an iteration of the same search word. You can try this for yourself. Search for baseball....Read the rest of entry "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search Sinker" here. January 19, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #1: Wumwum(Wumwum is short for "Watching Me Without Me", which is a nod to the Kate Bush song "Watching You Without Me," and why I'm thinking about 80s songs while writing...Read the rest of entry "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #1: Wumwum" here. September 27, 2003GooTopGet search results only from the top of domains. Gets Google to act more like a searchable subject index and less like a full-text search engine....Google Get RandomAnother random page generator -- I love random page generators! This one uses Google....September 26, 2003September 25, 2003September 24, 2003GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google ResultsSpecify what level of site you want returned to you (One level down? Two levels? Three? Whatever!). AlltheWeb now offers this in its advanced search options so I thought it...Read the rest of entry "GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results" here. September 13, 2003Cookin' With GoogleJudy Hourihan came up with the idea of searching Google to figure out what you're going to have for dinner and I turned it into a Google Hack. one of...September 12, 2003GooFreshGoogle offers a date-based syntax, but you can only access it via the advanced search, which limits your time options, or the daterange: syntax, which uses Julian dates and is...September 10, 2003MoogleIn Google Hacks we take a couple of separate looks at how a regular Google search for can be customized to do specific types of searching. GooCookin', which searches for...September 09, 2003Cliche-Go-RoundWe humans have a colorful language, but even we fall into cliches now and again. However, as they're used and passed around, cliches tend to mutate. Cliche-Go- Round is for...September 08, 2003Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) SearchI love Google's phone book search, but sometimes it's a bit difficult to use. This interface is an attempt to make the "yellow page" search a little easier. This interface...Read the rest of entry "Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) Search" here. September 07, 2003Google News Advanced OptionGoogle's news search is lovely, but the fact that it didn't have an advanced search was driving me crazy. So I came up with one. Now Google does have an...September 06, 2003The Domain CensusOkay, what is the domain census? It searches for the percentage of pages in seven TLDs (biz, net, org, info, gov, com, and edu) which contain a given keyword. Why?...September 05, 2003 |
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