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Playing with Google

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-things-for-the-weekend dept.

Chromatic sent over the links to Tara Calishain's Happy Google Hacks page. It's basically a collection of interesting ways to do searching - something fun for the weekend. I'm thinking of preparing dinner Sunday based on the recipe tool.

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  1. Re:Sanctioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look at the site, hes using Google API, using his google API key. Google opened their API to allow stuff like this. It's perfectly legal and he has their permission.

    If he was just parsing a google search result then yeah that would be bad.

    Also google has control over the API because they limit queries per day based on your key, as his site says "Note: If the Google API key has been used up for the day you'll get an error message."

  2. Re:Google 1000 quota by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Cannot believe you did not knew all this (and more) already. Don't you ever read www.searchlores.org?

  3. An awsome google site... by Alpha_Nerd · · Score: 2, Informative

    The objective of GoogleWhack is to find two words that when searched for only coincide on one page. The number of hits the individual words have are multipied together to get your score. Enjoy wasting some time =D

  4. Re:Ah, it's a Google of a problem, damn Google it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well here's giving away the secret of karma-whores everywhere... To find the Google cache of a webpage, you simply search for the URL of the page. For example, this for Slashdot. Unfortunately the Hacking Google site isn't cached. There's no ROBOTS.TXT on the server, but it's probably an expiry-date header in HTTP (can't check because the site is Slashdotted :-)

    Here's something interesting, though... Google's robots.txt.

  5. Re:Sanctioned by trotski · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does google embraces this form of use? What about all the legal bs lately about altering the look of a website, does this apply to search results?

    Actually, since google is this free and open company, they do embrace it. Just check out their terms of service.

    Pffff, Google's code is so secure that you wouldn't be able to get rid of Google's ads anyways. Besides, why would you want to hack such a free and open company?

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  6. Google Fight by SystematicPsycho · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use google fight to solve disputes sometimes.

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