Actually the book is great and covers well beyond "what you can learn from the google site", especially in regards to their XML SOAP/RPC interface (It's been a while, I can't remember which they used). I wrote a most cool little prototype application that allowed you to search for MP3s via Google within a Napster-like interface, and it actually worked pretty well, as long as you were searching for "popular" music. I remember always finding results fo Outkast and Metallica at the time.
The app would perform the Google searches and then HEAD for each MP3 file and present the valid links to the user. I'm currently starting to rewrite it in Cocoa (on the only OS worth using ;). The book's great and gave me all sorts of ideas. ~per On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:12:13 -0700, T. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google Hacks is available at the Eugene Public Library, and the copy I > mostly skimmed came from there. If you don't really consider yourself to > be able to easily find what you're looking for online, you might consider > buying a copy of this book. If you consider yourself pretty adept at > finding what you want with some effort, I'd suggest borrowing it--you will > find something you didn't know about and it will help you. > > How to know if you don't need this book: Do you grok web forms? Do you > know how to do all of the things in the advanced search page without using > it? Do you know how to make use of Google's cache? Wildcard searches? > Boolean expressions in your search terms? If you see no mysteries here, > the book probably contains nothing you couldn't figure out on your own. > > I knew enough to fall right into the borrow it category. I didn't need to > read enough of it to give a complete review, but I may snag it again for a > few days in order to provide one, if desired. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
