googling tips?

[Justin Ekis]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:46:37PM -0500, John Heim wrote:
> 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.

There is already a google scraper program like you're talking about. Try 
the search form on this page.
http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html
It seems to have a very clean and minimal interface, loads fast and 
there are no cookies or search term records kept. The only downside is 
you can't bookmark result pages. Not too sure why that is.

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:46:37PM -0500, John Heim wrote:
> 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.