[Air-l] Google Hacks

Karim R. Lakhani lakhani at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 1 02:40:02 PST 2003


actually not at all.  i thought given this list primary interest on all 
things internet and the usefullness of google as a "universal solvent", 
that folks on this list may care about this.  sorry if i have violated 
an unspoken norm.

K

Frank Thomas wrote:
> Karim,
> I guess this is not your opinion. You distribute publicity via an 
> academic list. Is the Sloan School linked to this ad ?
> Frank Thomas
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> Karim R. Lakhani wrote:
> 
>> Time for me to waste even more time googling for info!  Looks very 
>> interesting.
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>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/desc.html
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>> Google Hacks
>> Full Description
>> The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all 
>> you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research 
>> tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in 
>> more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a 
>> day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling 
>> data off the Web. You've got a cadre of techniques up your 
>> sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas 
>> with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always 
>> looking for better ways to search. It's the "hacker" in you: not the 
>> troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by 
>> trying new ways to get things done. If this is you, then you'll find 
>> new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in Google Hacks from 
>> O'Reilly's new Hacks Series.
>>
>> Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, 
>> tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of 
>> interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of 
>> information that Google has access to, and helps you have fun while 
>> doing it. You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the 
>> advanced search interface and the new Google API, including how to 
>> build and modify scripts that can become custom business applications 
>> based on Google. Google Hacks contains 100 tips, tricks and scripts 
>> that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. 
>> Each hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save hours of 
>> searching for the right answers.
>>
>> Written by experts for intelligent, advanced users, O'Reilly's new 
>> Hacks Series have begun to reclaim the term "hacking" for the good 
>> guys. In recent years the term "hacker" has come to be associated with 
>> those nefarious black hats who break into other people's computers to 
>> snoop, steal information, or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term 
>> originally had a much more benign meaning, and you'll still hear it 
>> used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks Series 
>> is written in the spirit of true hackers--the people who drive 
>> innovation.
>>
>> If you're a Google power user, you'll find the technical edge you're 
>> looking for in Google Hacks.
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