Google is a primarily a particularly good search engine. They screwed thousands of people by withdrawing their programmer API (Application Programming Interface) and now won’t let anyone use it with a program, only a browser.
You can get at other limiters with Google Advanced Search checkboxes, then look at the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) query generated and learn to compose it directly yourself.
Canada | Israel | Spain |
France | Italy | Sweden |
Germany | Japan | UK |
India | New Zealand | USA |
Ireland | Russia | others |
In the olden days, when Google redirected someone to your site as the result of a search, they would include the list of keywords used to find you in the HTTP header. This would help you understand how people were searching for you. They have stopped doing this. However, now you can get a summary of this information using the Google Webmaster Tools.
Google is a fairly well behaved company given the huge temptation it has knowing so much about what everyone is doing. When the founders lose control of the company, Google will likely become extremely evil. My current complaint with them is they have a short attention span, probably a side effect of the youth of its employees. They come up with an interesting concept, develop a proof of concept, turn it loose on the public, then abandon it. They don’t properly finish, support or polish their works.
Google obfuscates its searches by returning spaghetti JavaScript instead of search results. This makes it difficult to automate searches. You are supposed to use the Custom Search API which lets you receive results is JSON (Java Script Object Notation) or Atom format. The catch is, you may only do 100 searches per day. If you need more, you must pay for them $5 per 1000 queries.
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