Google Hacks for Fun and Profit

Posted Sep 23rd 2005 4:00AM by Fabienne Serriere
Filed under: google hacks

We've all played with Google hacks. Here is a short, quite incomplete list of irreverant uses for our engine of worship. Post your favorite Google hackage in the comments. I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.

Google cooking, around since 2002 and perhaps even before: simply list the various ingredients in your fridge and your cupboard to google-spit out a recipe

Perl fun with the Google API: $1

PyGoogle for Python fanatics: $2

Being able to Google in your command line: Priceless

A whole book chock full of Google hacks including yummy adwords hacking [pdf]

Craigslist + Google Maps == bliss for apartment hunters

A sobering use of Google Maps: updatable trajectory of hurricane Rita [via BoingBoing and Markie]

When video met Google, DVD Jon wrote a script to use Google's VLC video player to play non-google-hosted content

Fun for VJ's and Anit-TV-peeps

A Honeypot for those of you worried about others using malicious Google hacks on your sites

Once again, post your fave Google hacks in the comments.

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1. filetype is always one I use. You use it like this: filetype:doc finance doc is the file extension and finance is what is searching for.

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Droctogon

2. http://johnbokma.com/perl/ for some examples that use the Google API (and not)

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by John Bokma

3. Google MP3 search: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 "song title"

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Josh

4. http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ my favorite collection of google hacks

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nbcaffeine

5. Google for [inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="] (without[]) and have fun! lots of them can be rotated and can zoom in! fave fun

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by william

6. yeah i love google. I found a full copy of the movie "layer cake" on some random guy's server. Sometimes you run into a lot of broken links when searching for copyrighted materials, but if you persist...

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by joejack

7. @william: more fun: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/01/09/security-webcam-hunting.html Also, a "recent" feature: 200 usd in euro

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by John Bokma

8. I am one of the lead developers on GHH, thanks for linking us up. I read HAD fairly regularly - you guys are doing a great job. The automated airsoft sentry simply owns.

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Greg

9. What do you do when you find the enitre Star wars on google video? tell everybody about it.!!! Hers the link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9106444462824905514 Lets see how much time google takes to put this down.

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Surya

10. http://seo.anthonyparsons.com/forum/

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Draggy

11. My favorite is the Spam Map: http://mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html but I'm biased since I created it. :) Brian http://myvogonpoetry.com

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Brian p

12. http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlehacks good site for google hacks :-) robert http://www.eukhost.com

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Robert

13. http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlehacks is indead a very good site for google hacks. Thanks. kurt http://www.tuinadvies.be

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by www.tuinadvies.be

14. a basic start on a google video rss http://flatline.free-source.com/files/googlevidgrab.phps

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by chris

15. Another Google hack http://www.chatnsearch.com/ - Enables people searcing for similar keywords to chat with one another.

Posted at 3:37PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by chatnsearch

16. ihacked.com is a good site for googlehacks

Posted at 10:43AM on Jul 22nd 2007 by total_lam3r

17. Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services.

http://code.google.com/p/googlehacks/

Posted at 11:12PM on Aug 16th 2007 by OctalMage

18. http(s):\\*.*@members."cdgirls".com\main
The *.* is a wild card of course and everything after the @ sign is the page where you log into. There is a lot of forum postings of porn websites there user name and passwords lot of them don't work, but you can find some. and when you do free porn. nothing better:) I downloaded the entire site of cdgirls once it was about 60gb.

Posted at 2:19PM on Aug 28th 2007 by init_6

19. Solemn article. It make me lost in thoughts.

Posted at 6:48AM on Sep 27th 2007 by Allison

20. How can you get in contact with GOOGLE EARTH to get an error in an address (More than 100 miles as the crow flies) Corrected?
I have been trying to get this error corrected on GOOGLE maps for over 4 years with no luck.

Posted at 4:07PM on Feb 10th 2008 by Adrian James Flynn

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