Google Wireless - Search away from homeWritten by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.comFor so many web surfers, it's almost automatic to type Google.com in to our address bar when we want to search. So big and well-known is Google that many browsers have a built-in search box or typed shortcut for Google searches. In fact, we tend to associate Google with search so much now that word itself is commonly used as a verb, as in "let me Google that". It's much same as Band-Aid, Kleenex, and Xerox, where brand name is so pervasive that it's very often substituted for generic function of item brand is applied to. We're used to searching from home, where we've had Internet access for years now. But Google Wireless search is also available for use from Internet-ready cell phones and some wireless PDA devices such as PalmOne and Palm VII. To search from Google
| | Beyond the box with Google's Web APIWritten by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.comGoogle, most popular, and many say best, search engine, offers searchers many options to help them zero in on just what they're looking for. Although these search modifier features are documented on own site, many searchers, including experienced marketers and technically savvy people, simple don't know these features are available. But these features, along with Google search box, are only available to human searchers, who can type in their search parameters, and perhaps some keyboard scripting programs as well. But there is a way for programmers and web site designers to access Google's database from their own sites, in exact way they need. This is done by using Google's Web API (Application Program Interface). With API, programmers can use most any web programming language, such as PHP, ASP, Perl, .NET, and Java. Google's Web API provides "data hooks" that allow a remote program to access certain portions of Google easily.
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