[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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