Playing with Google

Google 1000 quota by sydneyfong · 2003-03-08 18:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Note: If you get a "no search results" message for a search that you'd expect results, this may be because the key has been used up for the day. Sigh. 1000 queries at ten results each isn't a whole lot, is it?

You gotta love slashdot and it's slashdotting....

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Sanctioned by Romancer · 2003-03-08 18:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

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?

If I wrote software that altered the google search results page to remove the paid listings would they have a legal standing to object, or would the simple fact that it's a search result page and I'm supposed to try and get the information I want, and only what I want(ie: +enhance +performance +car -porn)nullify this legal precedent?

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Re:Sanctioned by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-08 18:44 · 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."
Re:Sanctioned by trotski · 2003-03-08 20:11 · 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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Re:Sanctioned by presroi · 2003-03-08 22:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.

When I went to this site (buzztools) the time I wasn't fully slashdotted, I was prompted for a Google API key.

Am I just paranoid when mentioning the chance that such a funny tool might just be great for collecting other people's Google API access nummers/codes? Right now, google does not charge you but... Hmm, I am too paranoid.
Re:Sanctioned by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 00:21 · Score: 2, Insightful

free and open company? google is practically the electricity of the internet. if you believe they are "free and open" you are more misguided than the americans that are calling for war in iraq.

One of my favorite google easter eggs... by $$$$$exyGal · 2003-03-08 18:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Do a search for "goatsex", with the 'x' at the end, and look at what google recommends ;-).

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Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... by sam_handelman · 2003-03-08 18:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

What's really weird is that when you search for "goatse", you get a pointer to the anti-scientology subtree of google groups.

The string goatse appears nowhere on the page; goatse.cx certainly isn't there. This was done with blogging, somehow? Does anyone know how that could possibly work? The closest thing I find is a .cx domain: http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/

Evidently this is a mirror of something defunct, but it won't server pages to explorer and I can't be bothered to start mozilla.

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Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... by MattCohn.com · 2003-03-08 18:56 · Score: 3, Funny

AHH! NO google, I DIDN'T meen that! BAD google, BAD!
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... by Guppy06 · 2003-03-08 19:20 · Score: 4, Funny

At 28,900 hits for "goatse" and only 10,100 for "goatsex," I wouldn't call it an easter egg.

Should we mourn how many goatse links are out there, or be happy there are so "few" goatsex links?
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... by emc · 2003-03-08 20:15 · Score: 4, Funny

I searched for goatsex... clicked through something, and came upon:
http://www.dangerz.net/gatasa/article.shtml

I then sat, reading about the goatsex guy.

Great, now, not only are my eyes scarred for life, but I have just wasted 5 minutes of my life looking at "Investigative Journalism" on goatsex.

It was worth a laugh...
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... by leviramsey · 2003-03-08 21:20 · Score: 5, Funny

So, does this count as circular linking, or the first official goatse webring?

"ring" and "goatse" should never be use near each other!

Slashdotted already... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-08 18:37 · Score: 5, Funny

So...who's got the google cache?

beatnik poetry about quantum physics, anyone? by DataPath · 2003-03-08 18:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Physics cool hepcat words
daddy-o jazzman Concepts What the
Quantum Niels Quantum hip cool
Physics long gone is the Quantum Crossroads
Physics What Physics? What In
Online In daddy-o Physics Physics
Quantum is Concepts hepcat physics words of of
is Physics daddy-o Quantum Concepts Physics In jazzy
the jazzy words is

man... that's some GooPoetry

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Needed option by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · 2003-03-08 18:43 · Score: 4, Funny

I won't be happy until "images.google.com/porn" (or pr0n, for all you l33t h4xx0rs out there) works properly...

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Google Poetry - Slashdot by Derg · 2003-03-08 18:44 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought this was particularly charming:

[poem]

BSD Server that (?) Slashdot ...
Day nerds, News
! Wreaking Slashdot: Havoc ! Worm
... that Apple ... ... Slashdot.org matters
! Slashdot stuff Wreaking for (?) Quit
BSD Apple Meetup Slashdot: Slashdot: Day
Slashdot BSD nerds,
Wreaking nerds, (?) News Slashdot.org
www.slashdot.net nerds, Worm SQL Wreaking

[/poem]

And who says BSD is dead? thats like what, 3 mentions?

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Personal Google Score by presroi · 2003-03-08 18:44 · Score: 5, Interesting

Long time ago, I began to think about graphing someones "impact" in this world by letting google hunt for his/her name.

The pre-result can be watched at my homepage.

It's important not just to look at the real number but to watch the number growing and declining.

Anna Lührmann (age 19) was elected as member of Parliament 09/23/2002 and her google score just doubled within some days.

Maybe I'm going to reimplement this thing by using the google API and some funny php/lib_gd tools.

Re:Personal Google Score by arvindn · 2003-03-08 19:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Long time ago, I began to think about graphing someones "impact" in this world by letting google hunt for his/her name.
Anna Lührmann (age 19) was elected as member of Parliament 09/23/2002 and her google score just doubled within some days.

Well, I put my homepage in my URL field here and its pagerank shot up within a week.
Don't tell me I'm making an impact on the world by posting on slashdot :)
Re:Personal Google Score by presroi · 2003-03-08 19:44 · Score: 5, Interesting

The URL is very different to a human name. The Human Name System is crappy. It's not unique, it has not a defined charset and it is subject to chances all the time (Guess what happens when Mary marries Martin). Searching for "Jim Miller" or another popular name will not give you satisfing results. Arabic names for example are very hard to find (thats a phenomenon even the Feds have discovered by now). Does it say AlQuaida, El Kaida, Al Quaeda, ...Al Kiruna?

The technical approach of PageRank cannot be compared to count the number of results to a given Human Name.

My name "Mathias Schindler" is not unique and it's often misspelled "Matthias". Since the ordinary human population dislikes the idea of a unique naming system for people. (Another example might be Iceland, where the Surname results from the first name of your father (I heard so, it does not have to be correct)).

Posting your URL does not help your real name to boost directly. Putting your name under every message might.

Version 2.0 *could* make use of that by using the google pageRank as an indicator (for what, btw?). for the importance of a search result. This is the future....

Ah, it's a Google of a problem, damn Google it! by krray · 2003-03-08 18:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

Well, I guess I first have to question if the use of "Google" (tm, copyright, patented, etc) in the subject line is legal?

How DO you look up the Google'd cache on Google for Hacking the Happy Google? I'm sure it's probably an answer in the Google hack, but since /. Google'd them I can't Google them to see other interesting Google tid bits.

Re:Ah, it's a Google of a problem, damn Google it! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-08 19:44 · 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.

What the... by arvindn · 2003-03-08 18:47 · Score: 4, Funny

I understand its fun to think up words for all kinds of things, but "GooCooking"? Couldn't she come up with something in better er.. taste than that?

Talking of google hacks... by arvindn · 2003-03-08 18:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

Have you seen http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/?

Don't stop googling by hubbah · 2003-03-08 18:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Oh honey! Google me again and there's no telling what I'll do... no wait, keep googling, yeah, yeah, even find my old high school pictures. Damn, you google better than anyone I know, how did you turn THAT up? ...Oh wow... I promise, I'll google you next... oooh baby, oooh your results are amazing...I think I'm gonna google...phew... Damn, that was the *best* google I ever had. Promise.

Paranews has covered this by presroi · 2003-03-08 18:55 · Score: 3, Interesting

Paranews (German page, English links) is playing with google for a long time.

You might want to enjoy ideas like Googlefight

(Beginners' points to start:
George W. Bush vs. Saddam Hussein

Have fun...

Front page by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-08 18:58 · Score: 2, Interesting

ResearchBuzz Toolbox

With Google's new API ( http://www.google.com/apis/ ) using search engines is now even more fun and flexible. Since I first started playing with the API in April 2002, I've had several different ideas for ways to make the best use of it. Some of the ideas are little "sketches", while some are more thought-out programs.

This toolbox is a workbench for me to play with different ideas online, and make the interfaces publicly available so you can take a look at them too. So poke around, try the tools, and if you've got any ideas let me know what you think. Some of these tools, with codes and discussion about how they work, are available in the O'Reilly book Google Hacks.

If you want to use these tools, please please PLEASE consider getting a key from http:// www.google.com/apis/ . All you'll have to do is register. Programs will have key interfaces added to them over time. I only have one key, and it can be used only 1000 times a day, so with all these tools that key isn't going to go far. Some of the tools don't use the API key, thank goodness.

This Web site is so not finished it's not even funny. Pardon any dead-ends or under- constructions.

The latest tools:

Google hackers at work by arvindn · 2003-03-08 19:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Here you can see the google hackers at work.

500 by dannyweb · 2003-03-08 19:11 · Score: 4, Funny

All I'm getting is Internal Server Errors. Can it be slashdotted already? Darn, and I was looking forward to finding a recipe for "Peanut Butter, Jelly, and Bread", I just don't know what to do with them!

I dunno... by CoolVibe · 2003-03-08 19:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Internal Server Error... Is that the meaning of life or what?

Guess us slashdot folk threw a wrench in the gears. Hmmm...

An awsome google site... by Alpha_Nerd · 2003-03-08 19:38 · 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

Google Fight by SystematicPsycho · 2003-03-08 20:43 · Score: 2, Informative

I use google fight to solve disputes sometimes.

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Re:Google Fight by MattCohn.com · 2003-03-09 12:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Porn (45 100 000 results)
versus
Morality (1 210 000 results)

The winner is: Porn

I always knew it.

Well, I had my fun a few days ago by Bobke · 2003-03-09 00:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

when an article appeared on ZDNet (Belgium) about Filemaker Pro's being accessible through google with a simple search. So I searched for phpmyadmin... I downloaded like 10500 mails from other people from a webmail service once called "mailalien.com".. Got like 20000+ passwords off porn sites (with their mail addresses) and I believe I can just place an order for some new pentiums if I want. I don't call this hacking, I can screw up like 70+ sites in 5 seconds without having to pass ANY form of security. Just did a test, this db is STILL accessible, unbelievable... Try "db4allen"

Fagan Finder by sepluv · 2003-03-09 07:28 · Score: 2, Insightful

The site in the article is quite cool. I haven't seen it before.

Another useful site that uses an alternative interface for Google is Fagan Finder. It has all the difference google searches and related options on one page. (There is also an MSIE-only JS version which I have not used). Fagan Finder is a guide to SE's and directories; probably quite a useful site for those new to the web (and its SE's and directories) for getting around (and if one cannot find info on something in particular easily).

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