[Air-l] Google Hacks

[Karim R. Lakhani]

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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Karim R. Lakhani
MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project
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