Google Hacks:

Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World’s Information by Rael Dornfest.

Everyone loves Google. Well, except Bill Gates and other Microsoft employees. With Google basically you can do almost everything without any other software. Google provides useful things for our internet life for free~!!!

Behind Google’s simple home page, few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and manipulate Google’s information. All you need is where to look and with basic knowledge of programming, you can mine a ton of industrial strength information within Google’s reach.

There are 100 hacks in this book. I’d like to mention few hacks that I loved.

  • Hack 28. Compare Google’s Results with Other Search Engines
  • Hack 38. Map Google News
  • Hack 39. Track Your Favorite Sites
  • Hack 46. Program Blogger with PHP
  • Hack 66. Build Your Own Google Map
  • Hack 67. Add a Google Map to Your Web Site
  • Hack 76. Use Gmail as a Hard Drive
  • Hack 85. Get the Most Out of AdWords

This book will show you step by step how to take advantage of Google’s massive information library. If you love to search and navigate through internet through Google portal, this book is for you. If you have a website and want to integrate with lots of Google stuff, this books is definitely for you. If you want to learn the wonders of the Google Search Application Programming Interface (API), this is must have for you. Excellent book.

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