6.1. Hacks 47-59: Introduction

6.1. Hacks 47 59: Introduction

Search: next to shopping, emailing, and downloading pornography, it's the most popular activity on the Web. With billions of pages in no particular order, search engines have risen to prominence as the gatekeepers of the Internet. Those that survived the dot-com boom and bust are now worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and they probably deserve it. (They certainly deserve it more than their dot-com predecessors. Remember Pets.com? Man, that was a great business model. "Hey, let's sell 50-pound bags of dog food with free shipping." Brilliant.)

Google is currently the undisputed king of search, so many of the hacks in this chapter focus on Google. But there are hacks here for Yahoo! users too, and a few that work with any search engine.