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July 20, 2005

Google Hacks

Filed under: Blogs — kevinw @ 7:13 pm

From around the blogosphere this morning came the news of Google’s latest Map application - Google Moon.

I wasn’t going to mention it since everyone else is already on that bandwagon. Then I wandered upon a couple more great Google Hack blogs.

If you like GoogleMaps, you’ll want to check out Google Maps Mania, a blog about Projects that use the Google Maps public API

O’Reilly Radar has another Map Hacks collection.

On a similar vein is the Google Earth Hacks blog, that things like the Tour De France race routes, some great close-ups of famous theme parks like Disney land, other Random Cool Stuff.

Of course, google has a search engine too. There are a couple of interesting search blogs that post news and notables about Google and their uber-secret search technology. I check out John Battelle’s Search blog every now and then.

Another impressive search blog is Henk van Ess’s Search Bistro. This blog got some notice with it’s first posting about google labs. If you read the article, he goes into some detail about how he used functionality provided by Google to hack the url, and find out just what the http://eval.google.comis. Luckily (?) for him, Slashdot picked up his first post - so naturally he was hammered with traffic. What a way to start!