google : Java Glossary

Limiting Searches

• Limiting a Search To A Single Site

  Use site:mindprod.com in your search criteria to limit search to one site.

• Finding a similar Page

  Use related:mindprod.com/religion/god.html Find pages similar to this URL.

• Find a Definition

  Use define:zeugma definitions of a term.

• Find a Website

  Use inurl:sun find websites with the word “sun” in the domain name.

• Finding links To a Site

  Use link:mindprod.com to find links to that website from other websites. Find out who is talking about you.

• Excluding a word

  nuts -almonds means documents containg he word nuts, but not documents also containing the word almonds.

• Exact phrase

  "peanut butter" with the quotes, insists the words appear in that order with nothing in between.

• Relaxed Search

  "almonds OR nuts" means get documents containing either almonds or nuts or both. A normal search insists on all the words.

• Extension filetype

  filetype:pdf gets only Adobe pdf documents. filetype:html gets only html documents, (especially useful for Google Desktop that indexes more file types.) -filetype:html gets everything but pdf documents.

Google Parts

Google International

How Google Ranks Pages

Google works exceedingly well at filtering out junk and repetition. It is very fast compared with the competition. It seems to put what I am looking for right at the top of the list most of the time.

  Search Boxes

You can also set up a search box form where the user types the search keys, where it searches only your site. See these examples.

Google has a scheme to make it easy to set up custom searches just by asking questions on their website. The features include:

• with ads or paid, but ad-free
• narrow the search to a particular website or websites.
• narrow the search to particular web pages or directories.
• salting the search with generic keywords.
• The links you now insert are much shorter and simpler and pass validation, with the exception of a pair of nugatory <div> tags and a dangling & that should have been encoded as &.
• You can choose to have the result appear on your own web pages, or on an google page as is traditional.
• You can have the search button hosted on google if you are don’t know how to insert HTML into your own web page, e.g. if you are a blogger.

• When you create your site search they don’t give you the HTML to paste into your site, leaving you to wonder if search pages must be hosted at google. There is no mention where to look under help. It turns out they later email you a link to it, but they don’t tell you that or mention it anywhere in the FAQs. Look for the email in your SPAM bucket. Later you can find it under code on the control panel.
• General big brotherness. Google maintains control and in theory could make the links you put on your website do anything it pleased.
• Clients must have JavaScript and one compatible with Google’s scripts. This will rule out some of the less popular browsers.
• You can’t let the client choose with a radio button whether for example to search the web, Sun’s site or your site.
• You can’t set up searches to Google images or Google groups.
• There is nothing in the generated HTML that gives any hint as to what search engine does. It is up to you to add your own comments to help keep track.
• If you put two different searches on the same page, you must manually modify the id of each search to make it unique.

Search King James Bible

You can access Google via Java with a SOAP interface. Read the licence agreement carefully. It is quite onerous.

 Google Desktop

To search archives such as 7z, arj, bz2, cab, gz, tar, rar and zip, you will need to install the Archive Plug-in. The plug-in also handles nested archives. If Google Desktop does not do what you want out the box, check for a plug-in to add the functionality. Failing that, you could write your own plug-in using the proprietary Microsoft COM interface.

Unfortuately, it gives you no control over where it puts its giant indexes. Arrgh! However, it is not totally stupid. It picked a different drive from my choice for its indexes, but at least one with a reasonable amount of free space. Infuriatingly, it put all its program files on the overcrowded C:.

I tried a plug-in from PodSync called TweakGDS to rectify index placement. It is rather literal. When you tell it to move the Google indexes to drive G: it will put them in the root directory! You must provide it a suitable directory name such as G:\Google Desktop Indices. It does not move all the Google data files, just the indexes, so you must leave the original X:\Google Desktop Data and F:\Program Files\google directories intact. Be aware, if you make any changes to the drives to be indexed via TweakGDS, it discards all its indexes and starts from scratch. After I installed it, both Google Desktop and my machine general became very unstable. Google kept rebuilding the indexes over and over from scratch. It would stall for hours doing making no rebuild or apparently regressing. I uninstalled it, and of course that triggered yet another round of total index rebuilding. This seem to have cleared the instability. Perhaps you will have better luck with it.

My biggest complaint with Google Desktop is that, even though I have it configured to index only when my machine is idle, it is far too eager to index. It slows down all my work. I would be much happier if it waited for 30 seconds of inactivity before catching up on its indexing. It is in there like a hungry dog indexing instantly every time I change a file.

Make sure you exit Google Desktop before you defrag, or else Google’s index files (e.g. E:\Google Desktop Data\*\*.cf1) will not be defragged. Google not only indexes your files, it creates multiple cached copies of them, presumably stored in delta form the way CVS does. It has to run all the time normally to detect file changes as they happen. It will catch up when you run it again by doing a complete disk scan. Similarly, turn it off while you are backing up to CD or it could stall the backup and ruin it.

When you click on an HTML reference it has found, the document shows up in the browser, in my case Opera. From there, I can click view source to edit the original!! If you click a text file, it shows up in the editor/viewer you have associated with *.txt files.

Like DOS Lotus Magellan, Desktop has a plug-in API to allow non-text documents to be indexed as well. It has no file explorer/copier/mover/filterer/deleter/viewer like the incomparable Lotus DOS Magellan though. You write indexers in Microsoft COM compatible languages, e.g. C++ or C#. You write gadgets in JavaScript and XML.

You can restrict your searches to *.txt files with filetype:txt in your search criterion.

You can restrict searches to certain directories with under:"C:\Documents and Settings". I have not yet found a tag that lets you specify file name wildcards.

from:george@whitehouse.gov looks for emails from a certain person.

to:laura@whitehouse.gov looks for emails to a certain person.

Boxes let you narrow the search to within a band around a given date. There are other advanced search features.

Google indexing gets run ragged if you move or rename directories frequently as I do to hide and reveal them in various directory trees. You need to turn off indexing of all such directories if you don’t want Google going nuts with endless indexing. Similarly if you have any pipeline batch processing of files, Google wants to get in there at every stage and take another cached snapshot of all the files, greatly slowing down the works.

Google does not automatically update itself. You must download and reinstall Google Desktop every few weeks to get the bug fixes. You can see which version you have by clicking About.

The index will eventually clog with dozens of versions of the same file. Further it will mysteriously refuse to index some new files. The only thing I have found to correct this is to uninstall google desktop, manually wipe all its index files (search for *.cf1 to find the directories where they live), and start from scratch, and rebuild the indexes which will take several hours. Unfortunately, you will have to reenter all your preference settings from scratch.

The bottom line is, I removed Google Desktop from my machine. It had only about a 30% chance of finding what I was looking for. It simply did not index everything it should. I could discern no pattern in its omissions. I needed more accuracy. I am now using Copernic.

Finding Roedy’s Recommended Books

This feature will also kick in later using an ordinary web browser Google.com site search with site:mindprod.com "recommend book" for people who browse the ordinary way, when Google next indexes the mindprod.com website.

Incidentally, Google Desktop will let you find anything else on the mindprod.com website with indexes that are only seconds out of date.

You can similarly find my DVD recommendations with filetype:html "recommend DVD" in Google Desktop and site:mindprod.com "recommend book" in an ordinary web browser Google site search.

You can also use Google Books to search for books, and browse them online to various degrees. You can also use or Copernic, which I find generally faster and more reliable that Google Desktop. Just search for recommend book without quotes. You might optionally set the filetype to html to narrow the search.

 Google Video

1. Usually Google has much higher bandwidth than the original site.
2. Even after the original site drops carrying the video, Google presumably will continue to carry it.

Google gvi format is copy protected so when you buy videos, you can view them on/line as often as you like, but only online.

 Google Earth

 Google Toolbar

• Ordinary Google web searches.
• Opera/Gator-like automatic fill in of web forms, called autofill not to be confused with autolink, the button right beside it. It is not very bright. You have to watch it carefully since it often puts data is the wrong slots or fails to fill in slots it should be able to figure out. It does not handle passwords, company names, nicknames, gender, age…
• Spell check of web form input.
• Address lookup showing maps, USA only.
• Translations of foreign languages, like Babelfish.
• Ability to customise buttons and searches.

  Google Books

iGoogle

 Google AdSense

Google AdSense is one of the few affiliate programs worth the effort. You can put up to three banners per page and if the banners are big enough, sometimes multiple ads will fit in a banner. They are popular because they are very easy to set up. You just put a standard piece of HTML on your page that tells Google the size of ad you want and they take it from there. You can block ads from objectionable companies.

Google pays you for placing most ads on a CPC (Cost Per Click) basis. Ones advertisers target to your particular website, they pay on a CPM (Cost per thousand/M impressions) basis. You as the displayer of the ad, will get something in the order of $.10 USD to $1.50 USD per click based on your natural ranking, an advertising desirability measure.

The rate you get per click is a the result of an automatic auction between advertisers for the right to advertise to your site or your keywords. You get an undisclosed percentage of what the advertiser pays.

You must, of course, register as an affiliate first (via the white box on the right) or they won’t know where to mail the cheque.

I keep the ads off the high traffic pages since they can slow down loading and, if Google in unreachable, can freeze the loading entirely. I have written Google repeatedly about the problem. There is also a problem using the website offsite when the ad content is not available. Google JavaScript needs to suppress the ad if when you are off-line or if the ad does not appear within a few seconds. It should not hold up the entire page. For now, you have to turn off JavaScript for off-line viewing of my web pages.

Ads can only appear on pages that Google spiders, so they must be open to robots.txt and appear in your optional sitemap. Google needs to examine their content to select relevant ads.

 Google AdWords

Advertisers bid for the right to ad placements for important keywords and sites. Law firms will bid up to $160.00 USD per click for keywords that may land them clients. Website owners displaying the ads get a an undisclosed share of this largess. Google has to bar website owners who lard their sites with phony false popular keywords. When the bids are too low, Google displays public service ads. Advertisers can submit a daily advertising budget to Google and be pretty well guaranteed they can’t go over it.

Here are the approximate fees:

• to sign up $5.00 USD
• You can chose a maximum cost per click in the range $.01 USD to $100.00 USD .
• Your daily click budget can be as low as $.01 USD .
• Site targeted ads require a minimum price of $.25 USD per thousand impressions.

In the simplest case you set up a daily budget, and a set of keywords relevant to you product and bid how much you are willing to pay per click on each keyword. If you bid too low, your ad will rarely be seen. The trick is to pick specific keywords that will bring in the customers that other advertisers have not thought of and bid up the cost. You can also limit your ads to a certain geographical radius for local businesses.

You need to compose some ads, which can be a simple as a couple of lines of text, or as elaborate as you can make a gif, png or jpg banner.

Advertisers can also target specific websites or pages to display their ads in a process called placement targeting. Both AdWords and AdSense users can set up placements. For example, if you had a web page that you would think would be a great place for a pariticular sort of ad, you could set up a placement for advertisers to request. If you want to advertise of the mindprod.com website, that is how you would go about it. It is a complicated system. You are best do so a fair bit of reading on how it works before you start playing with real money.

AdWords Sign up

 Site Maps

GSiteCrawler

SiteMap Utility

You control the utility by composing three files with a text editor. The first siteconfig.properties looks like this:

You then compose a list of exceptions, the files to specially catalog a different way from the default for their directory : files.csv: It contains directory name, filename, frequency updated, and relative importance.

,         whatsnew.html, hourly, .9
projects, projects.html, weekly, .7

My utility then scans your disk and prepares a Google sitemap entry for every individual file that meets those criteria and compresses it. You then upload it to your website. The first time, you must also register that file’s name with Google.

You want to regenerate your site map just prior to every upload, otherwise if the Google spider comes, it will miss some of your recently updated files.

 Google Accelerator

Google Chrome

• Mac and Linux versions are planned.
• It multi-threaded with isolation between the threads so if one goes berserk, it takes only one window down, not the whole browser.
• It generates native code on the fly for JavaScript much the way HotSpot works for Java.
• It has a JavaScript console and a JavaScript debugger. Its whole focus is improved JavaScript.
• It has constantly updated lists of sites that are malware or phishing sites.
• It runs signed Applets without asking permission, even ones with self-signed certificates if the certificate is registered in the IE set of trusted certificates.

• It works only on Windows and works only with beta Java 1.6.0_10. It does not work with earlier or later JDKs.
• It is based on an older Safari engine which still has a serious security flaw.
• There does not appear to be any way to customise the toolbars.
• There don’t appear to be any add-ons, though it can support Gears.
• It does not have a way to launch Java Web Start automatically.
• It reports that Java Web Start is not installed.
• It does not yet support SSL client authentication, though it does support access to SSL end EVSSL secure sites.

• The view source command is hidden under Document ⇒ Developer.
• In the options section, you can configure the the home button to show, but it does not show by default.
• It is missing a stop button. You stop by hitting the Esc key.
• Configure larger fonts under Options ⇒ Minor Tweaks.
• to search google, type g xxxx in the address bar.

 Google Gears

General Search

 Google Code