RE: googling tips?

["Sina Bahram" <sbahram@nc.rr.com>]

See this link for the answer:

http://www.scroogle.org/scget.html

*Snip*

Some searchers like to bookmark their searches, and couldn't do this because
we prefer the POST method instead of the GET method. There is a reason
behind
this: the POST method keeps your search terms out of the logs of webmasters
on sites that you reach from our scraped results. Search engines use the GET
method, and many searchers are accustomed to the convenience of turning
searches into bookmarks or shortcuts. For one thing, you can email a
complete search
link to someone. But there is a privacy penalty with the GET method, which
is why we prefer the POST method.

*End snip*

By reading further: you can find their explaination of how to make
bookmarks.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Justin Ekis
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:25 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: googling tips?

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.

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