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why * should buy * (google.com)
27 points by nose on Feb 18, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



Tweaked version, for more corporation names instead of "why you should buy life insurance":

http://tinyurl.com/2fmpde


If you find this sort of thing interesting, Johnny Long's "Google Hacking for Penetration Testers" is a worthwhile read: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/news/book-releases/book-list.ht... , scroll down.

Long also maintains the Google Hacking Database: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php

Fun stuff therein.


On a screenshot kick today. . .

http://www.zentu.net/open-space/wildcards

I sometimes think about how the top (10 default in this case) results are influenced by physical locale of the searcher. The whole conceptual lightspeed thing is really quite interesting.


So I'm curious--the screenshot you've taken has ~20k less results than mine, and the result-set is wildly different--


Its an instant rumour mill. Now what will TechCrunch do?


Nice trick! Might be useful sometime...

What other wildcards are there?


http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

the tilde operator (for synonyms) is pretty useful.


"why you should buy an emotional planner".

i'm almost scared to look.


apple care....




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