Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Still on GOOGLE

Google Hacks
Without doubt, Google is the most useful website on the Internet. This is scary, considering that Google is a company and that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It would be far preferable if some kind of open source search engine solution could be come up with.

But the truth is, we don't have such a solution and as long as we don't, we might as well have some fun with Google. The projects listed below are Google Hacks in that they use Google for something fun or interesting in a way that Google was not designed for.

Google stimulates these projects in a limited way. The Google API allows programmers to do up to a 1000 searches a day from their own projects. Pretty neat, except for that a 1000 is not that much when a service becomes public, especially since some hacks below use more than one search per operation.

So, in order to use some of the hacks here, you'll need your own Google key. You can get it at Google for free and you'll need it at other sites with Google hacks too.

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