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December 06, 2004Search for Keywords in Sets of Links
Google 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 enter a URL. And what NeighborSearch will do is search...
October 06, 2004User-Guided Search Refining in Google
Despite 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 nice MyGoogleSearch ( http://www.mygooglesearch.com/ ). The idea behind this hack...
September 07, 2004Gmail-Powered Blogging
Gallina 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 for this stuff is focused on Google and not, say,...
September 01, 2004A Google to RSS Implementation
If 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 , here ya go: http://rajivraj.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/google/googlerss.html....
August 29, 2004The GMail Filesystem
GmailFS: "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 anything wrong with that.) Marvelous....
August 10, 2004G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across Time
You 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 to optimize your page and get a sense of how...
Continue reading "G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across Time" » June 24, 2004Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet
David 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 a Google search, then click the bookmarklet. You'll get a...
Continue reading "Sweet Google Results Scraper in a Bitty Bookmarklet" » May 27, 2004FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff
Philipp 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 to the About page at http://www.findforward.com/about/ since it best explains...
Continue reading "FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff" » March 16, 2004Cookin' With Google Updated
In 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 box. New categories are: seafood, diabetics, Atkins, and crockpot recipes....
January 22, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJack
When 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, and a few other things. I was falling asleep one...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJack" » January 21, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarklets
If 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 &btnI. In other words, if you click on this URL:...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarklets" » January 20, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search Sinker
If 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. Now search for baseball baseball. See? Search Sinker asks for...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search Sinker" » 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 Perl scripts is anybody's guess.) Didja ever want to check...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #1: Wumwum" » September 27, 2003GooTop
Get 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 Random
Another random page generator -- I love random page generators! This one uses Google....
September 26, 2003Google Does Poetry
Well, more specifically Google does weird poetry, with a little help from me....
September 25, 2003I'm Feeling REALLY Lucky!
Feeling so lucky you do TWO searches, instead of one....
September 24, 2003GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results
Specify 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 would be cool to get the same thing for Google....
Continue reading "GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results" » September 13, 2003Cookin' With Google
Cookin' With Google has a new home at http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/cookin-with-google.shtml....
September 12, 2003GooFresh
Google 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 a bit difficult to use. Goofresh is a way to...
September 10, 2003Moogle
In 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 recipes, is a good example of this type of hack....
September 09, 2003Cliche-Go-Round
We 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 entering a cliche and finding different iterations of that cliche...
September 08, 2003Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) Search
I 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 searches businesses only (not residences) and does not require an...
Continue reading "Yellow (And Green and Red and Blue) Search" » September 07, 2003Google News Advanced Option
Google'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 advanced search option but I still kinda like mine. Check...
September 06, 2003The Domain Census
Okay, 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? I dunno why. I just thought of it after thinking...
September 05, 2003The Domain Purity Test
You've probably seen those "purity test" sites before, where they ask you a bunch of weird questions related to a certain topic and then tell you how "pure" you are about something. Well, Google has its own purity test and...
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