Playing with Google 137
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.
Google 1000 quota (Score:5, Funny)
You gotta love slashdot and it's slashdotting....
Re:Google 1000 quota (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Google 1000 quota (Score:2)
Sanctioned (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:Sanctioned (Score:5, Informative)
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 (Score:5, Insightful)
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 (Score:2)
googleapi is great for doing more complex searches, like wanting to grade a set of pages by rules set by you(lowering grade on pages with known bad words for example so that one banner doesnt filter the site but 20 get it's score so low you wont have to check it out.). also great to avoid those gddamn link farms..........
Re:Sanctioned (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, since google is this free and open company, they do embrace it. Just check out their terms of service [google.com].
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?
Re:Sanctioned (Score:2, Insightful)
One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:5, Interesting)
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
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.
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:2)
Now that I would call an easter egg. Except, if you actually go over to the Scientology category and do a search for "goatse" just in that category [google.com], it does come up with a hit. Here [slashdot.org].
So, does this count as circular linking, or the first official goatse webring?
(BTW, "goatse" only appears twice in the posting in question, so I'm still tempted to call it an easter egg.)
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:5, Funny)
"ring" and "goatse" should never be use near each other!
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:1)
And now you know just how badly a guy can be whipped.
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:2)
No text or anything under it, or a cache offering, or anything, just the link to the page and a offer to find similar pages(which yields no results
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:2)
What *also* appears on the search results is a link to a google groups node. That google groups node (distinct from the search results) contains no references to goatse.cx, except, as others have pointed out, for a slashdot article.
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:1)
Re:One of my favorite google easter eggs... (Score:5, Funny)
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... (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.dangerz.net/gatasa/article.shtm
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... (Score:1)
Slashdotted already... (Score:5, Funny)
beatnik poetry about quantum physics, anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
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
Re:beatnik poetry about quantum physics, anyone? (Score:2)
They suck, and like the double-breasted suit
I pray the double lock will keep;
double cheese, or the occasional Mai-Tai? (Remember, living
and his speed doubles every 3.2 seconds, how long will it be before
other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in
the two had the following record: the Vietnam War, Watergate, double-
eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as
It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person
can wait. Unless it's blind screaming paroxysmally hedonistic
lenses, essentially blind -- could result in the kind of injury where
Ted Hughes eat your heart out
Oliver.
Needed option (Score:4, Funny)
Google Poetry - Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
[poem]
BSD Server that (?) Slashdot ...
... that Apple ... ... Slashdot.org matters
Day nerds, News
! Wreaking Slashdot: Havoc ! Worm
! 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?
Re:Google Poetry - Slashdot (Score:2)
Personal Google Score (Score:5, Interesting)
The pre-result can be watched at my homepage [presroi.de].
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.
old (Score:1)
Re:old (Score:1)
I'd love to see this altavista feature (does this include some kind of 'history'?).
Mathias Schindler
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:5, Funny)
Don't tell me I'm making an impact on the world by posting on slashdot :)
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:5, Interesting)
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....
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
I think if you searched for "Jim Miller" you wouldn't find an arm... ;o)
C'mon... there's gotta be a Bears fan on Slashdot who will mod that up!
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
Not a mod today, but here's a +1 Funny for you. Hopefully we can get Kordell to solve our QB problems!
The McCaskey's are to Chicago football, as Microsoft is to open source.
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
Icelandic naming convention (short summary):
male child: father's first name + possessive 's' + son
female child: father's first name + possessive 's' + dottir
If dad's a deadbeat/unknown, use mother's first name instead of father's.
There are also subtle mutations of names involved. You want great detail on that, learn Icelandic. For an example of how it all works, Tryggvi and his wife Brunhild have a son that they name Thorvald. The child is named Thorvald Tryggvasson. Thorvald gets Gudrun knocked up and skips town on the nearest trawler, leaving no forwarding address. When the child is born (let's say it's a girl), she will have the last name Gudrunsdottir. 18 years later, young Ms. Gudrunsdottir (let's call her Rannveig) is grown up. She finds out she's pregnant after partying an entire weekend with a bunch of sailors on shore leave from NAS Keflavik, and can't remember who specifically is in the daddy candidate pool. Her child would have the last name of either Rannveigsson or Rannveigsdottir.
As an interesting and somewhat related side note, Icelandic phone books list name, address, phone number, and occupation. They also have kept concise records of descent since the Age of the Saga Writers (c. 1200ad).
yes, it's a little offtopic, but what the hell...
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
I don't think it'd be very easy to find "Mathias Shindler" if all your search tools used Arabic orthography, so why do you expect the converse to be true?
Install the Arabic language pack; write your search in Arabic. Google will find it. Google is sexy.
>The Human Name System is crappy..
> it has not a defined charset
I don't see how that's true at all, unless you're (American ex-pop-star) Prince. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a single commonly used naming scheme which you can't map to Unicode. I mean _Ancient Egyptians_ used the same characters for names as words..
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
and got 3540 matches!
But that could be because my name is the same as
a locality in Australia..
it could be worse.. (Score:1)
Well, you're still lucky. Guess what happens to 5 year old George Washington when he does what you did.
(The first name "Gerhard" as well as the last name "Schröder" ist very common in Germany. Even in politics (Minister of Defense Gerhard Schröder (around 1968) is not the same as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (1998 - now))
Stuart, do you results become more accurate when you exclude the town of this park for example?
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
Don't worry, one of my friends' name is "Michael Jones", he has 74k hits with quotes.
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:1)
"Arthur von Marschall" -- Try it yourself hehe.
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:2)
A few months ago I stopped working for the company that hosted that particular picture, so it doesn't come up anymore, but it was a good few months
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:2)
Re:Personal Google Score (Score:2)
Damn, I wish I were me.
Ah, it's a Google of a problem, damn Google it! (Score:4, Interesting)
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
Re:Ah, it's a Google of a problem, damn Google it! (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 [google.com] for Slashdot. Unfortunately the Hacking Google site isn't cached [google.com]. 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 [google.com].
Makes sense (Score:2)
(Google haven't blocked
What the... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What the... (Score:1, Troll)
Talking of google hacks... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Talking of google hacks... (Score:1)
Re:Talking of google hacks... (Score:1)
I made this my home page. Heres what I found at the bottom of the page after doing a search....
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Consistent!
Don't stop googling (Score:2, Funny)
Paranews has covered this (Score:3, Interesting)
You might want to enjoy ideas like Googlefight [googlefight.com]
(Beginners' points to start:
George W. Bush vs. Saddam Hussein [googlefight.com]
Have fun...
Re:Paranews has covered this (Score:1)
some results : vi vs. emacs [googlefight.com] , gnome vs. kde [googlefight.com]
We finally have a way to find out who's best !!!!
or worst??? Maybe winning the googlefight is a bad thing
AARGH ! this is too difficult for me. If anybody needs me, i'll be in my room whining about how my pathetic little brain fails me every time i need it (once a month, is that too much to ask?)
Microsoft vs Linux (Score:1)
Googlefight: SCO vs IBM (Score:2)
Front page (Score:2, Interesting)
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 [oreilly.com].
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Misleading title.. (Score:1)
500 (Score:4, Funny)
obligatory link (Score:1)
GooCookin' (Score:1)
Eww... that sounds like some strange goo cooking all right! Better think twice before you cook Sunday dinner with this tool.
I dunno... (Score:3, Funny)
Guess us slashdot folk threw a wrench in the gears. Hmmm...
An awsome google site... (Score:2, Informative)
Google Fight (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google Fight (Score:2, Funny)
versus
Morality (1 210 000 results)
The winner is: Porn
I always knew it.
We've slashdotted this site, and... (Score:1, Interesting)
Oh well..
Well, i don't know if it's on the site's list, since i can't reach the site, but here's my favorite google toy [googlism.com]. I really hope i don't slashdot it by linking it
slashdot is 5
slashdot is giving away money
slashdot is a plot by microsoft to destroy the productivity of linux users
slashdot is 5 today
slashdot is now running fry
slashdot is owned by osdn
slashdot is that the number of trolls
slashdot is a technology oriented weblog
slashdot is one of the largest tech sites on the web
slashdot is one of the largest it news sites on the web
slashdot is an open forum and we encourage free discussion and sharing of ideas
slashdot is going to wall street and inviting the nerds along for the ride
slashdot is now four years old
slashdot is running a
slashdot is running a poll asking people's favorite office suite
slashdot is raking in the page views
slashdot is many things to many people
slashdot is among other things
slashdot is not a democracy
slashdot is a community with rules and customs
slashdot is geen bedrijf
slashdot is not relevant here
Re:We've slashdotted this site, and... (Score:1, Offtopic)
anonymous coward is famous for first comment posts and annoying comments that make no sense and serve no purpose other than to anger other slashdot users
anonymous coward is upset that nick has been arrested
anonymous coward is atia
anonymous coward is a genious
anonymous coward is not a single individual
anonymous coward is on crack
anonymous coward is the user name for comments which are submitted anonymously
anonymous coward is also supported
anonymous coward is posting in reference to one
anonymous coward is more like it
anonymous coward is
anonymous coward is a mask to hide behind
anonymous coward is a gimp
anonymous coward is to get out of jain list
anonymous coward is revealed
anonymous coward is known as joerg
anonymous coward is a wit too
anonymous coward is not a single person but all anonymous posters
anonymous coward is tom morrisette
anonymous coward is like a slap in the face from a tissue
anonymous coward is due
anonymous coward is such an apt phrase
anonymous coward is enjoying the scene
anonymous coward is not going to have ghostscript installed > on their
anonymous coward is not going to have ghostscript installed > > on
anonymous coward is the lowest
anonymous coward is uid 0 or
anonymous coward is right
anonymous coward is not a representitive of a company
anonymous coward is a 'nym used by people who either don't want to be known
anonymous coward is another sheep
anonymous coward is okay too
anonymous coward is likely to be able to match
anonymous coward is posting heinous and threatening comments on your blogs and/or through email
anonymous coward is a good name for you
anonymous coward is a well known
anonymous coward is the slashdot term for anyone posting anonymously
anonymous coward is not going to have ghostscript installed on their system
anonymous coward is really red tall? posted by
anonymous coward is a georger?
anonymous coward is the great shaq
anonymous coward is a liar
anonymous coward is clear
anonymous coward is a glaring example
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
el8 (Score:1, Funny)
page rank feedback? (Score:1)
thnx,
-strangeloop
Well, I had my fun a few days ago (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Well, I had my fun a few days ago (Score:1)
Do it yourself... (Score:2)
For me, the site is good example of what else you can do with google if you go a bit under the plain interface it have, but, like in the World of Ends [worldofends.com] site say for internet, the main google interface and main use should be as "dumb" as it is now, and top of it anyone could do this kind of hacks (you can do even a directory of hacks, like Yahoo but pointing to google hacks for each category)
/.'d :( (Score:2)
Hmmm... any one got any ideas for a can of peas, 2 frozen fish filets, a half a bag of cheeze doodles, and blueberry bagels??? :P
Duke
Re:/.'d :( (Score:1)
I need a 'chicken wav sound' search result
Holy crap (Score:1)
Is this us?
You bastards! (Score:2, Funny)
Fagan Finder (Score:2, Insightful)
Another useful site that uses an alternative interface for Google [faganfinder.com] is Fagan Finder [faganfinder.com]. It has all the difference google searches and related options on one page [faganfinder.com]. (There is also an MSIE-only JS version [faganfinder.com] which I have not used). Fagan Finder [faganfinder.com] 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).
!elgoog (Score:1)
--paul
Another example... (Score:1)
Web Diff (Score:2)
Google's API docs give as an example an application which would notify you of new documents that appear in a particular search. In order to truely successfully implement this, you'd need to be able to index much much more than the 1000 hits that google allows. Anyone done this using HTTP rather than Google's API?
Hmmmmm... Poetry (Score:1)