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The first part of this book
concerns basic Google searching and explains details of its syntax. It
teaches how to restrict searches based on language, dates, wildcards and
different types of documents. The second chapter gives you an overview
of different Areas of Google and about their usage. These two chapters
are good for someone just entering the Google environment or looking to pick
up some quick searching tips.
Chapters 3 and 4 go into
third party services, none of which jumped out at me as being useful.
Chapters 4, 5 and 6 cover
creating Google applications. Using “scraping” (the act of pulling
data from html files), SOAP, VB, Perl and PHP and the Google API).
There were plenty of examples and some semi-interesting uses.
Chapter 7 was mostly throw
away. – Pranks and games using Google. (Although I have heard of
“Google whacking” and now know, what it means. [1]
Chapter 8 is the best
chapter in this book. It gives you ideas, methods and techniques to
make you web site more attractive to both Google and general web surfers.
If more people would follow these ideas, we would have a better web.
[1] Nope sorry, Cannot tell
you, I think this and the last chapter are probably the only reasons I would
buy this book.
Clyde |
