[Air-l] Google Hacks

Frank Thomas frank.thomasftr at free.fr
Tue Apr 1 00:47:24 PST 2003


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

Karim R. Lakhani wrote:

> Time for me to waste even more time googling for info!  Looks very 
> interesting.
>
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/desc.html
>
>
> 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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