googling tips?

[hank]

what is the code you used?
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From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: googling tips?


> Another tip:
>
> You can put a google search form on your own homepage so you don't have to
> tab through to the search field on google's homepage each time you want to
> do a search.  For example see my homepage:
>
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
>
> When I want to do a search, I hit the hotkey for returning to my homepage
> and since the search form is the first thing on the page, I'm already in
> the search field. Type in a search term, press enter, done.
>
> Next thing I'm going to do is write a screen scraper program to connect to
> the google server, get search results, parse the results page, and display
> just the results. I'm going to get rid of all that dreck google has added
> over the years.
>
> At 03:18 PM 5/4/2006, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>Another thing is in the preferences.  You can change the number of hits
>>per page from the default of 10 clear up to 100 and save these as a
>>cooky so it is remembered next time.  When I was using Firefox in
>>Windows with this setting at 100, it made the google pages much easier
>>to use and FireFox loads pages so quickly.  I would think this would be
>>advantagious with a text browser too.
>>
>>On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:16:39AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
>> > I think google has a tips section one tip is use the + (plus) sign 
>> > between
>> > words without spaces to say you want to find info which contains both
>> > words.  Like speakup+debian searches for topics on debian which are 
>> > also
>> > about speakup.  searching for debian speakup, without the plus sign
>> > searches for all documents with speakup and all documents with debian
>> > which may not bive you the specific search you wanted.  hth
>> >
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