[ale] a Google <feature!> OT

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Dobkin <ALE at MaestroIT.com> writes:

    Alan> As disturbing as this may be, it is not a new feature.
    Alan> Google has had this feature for at least a year or two, and
    Alan> the same data (more up-to-date) has been available for
    Alan> several years with AT&T's AnyWho reverse lookup:

It's even documented in the ORA _Google Hacks_ book which has been out
over a year:


http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/


As a quick review, _Google Hacks_ has some useful tips (e.g. I never
knew about repeating search terms to weight them more and change the
result set) but isn't really worth the full cover price IMHO; if you
do a lot of googling it's probably worth the *insert favourite online
bookseller* 30%-off price.


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