Google Hacks, 2nd Edition

Feel Really Lucky

Take the domain in which the first result of a query appears and do more searching within that domain.

Does Google make you feel lucky? How lucky? Sometimes as lucky as the top result is, more results from the same domain are just as much so.

This hack performs two Google queries. It first saves the domain of the top result of the first search is saved. Then it runs the second query, searching only the saved domain for results.

Take, for example, Grace Hopper, famous both as a computer programmer and as the person who coined the term computer bug . If you were to run a search with “Grace Hopper” as the primary search and overlay a search for COBOL on the domain of the first result returned, you’d find the following three links at the top of the results page:

GHC - 2004
http://www.gracehopper.org/ghc_press_factsheet1.html
... Website: www.gracehopper.org ... and on making machines understand ordinary language 
instructions led ultimately to the development of the business language COBOL. ...
GHC - 2004
http://www.gracehopper.org/ghc_press_factsheet.html
... Website: www.gracehopper.org ... and on making machines understand ordinary language 
instructions led ultimately to the development of the business language COBOL. ...
GHC2002
http://www.gracehopper.org/gmh2002/resources.html
... uspers-h/g-hoppr.htm. Whitman College: http://people.whitman.edu/~pitterk/class/
cobol.html. Yale University (The Ada Project): http ...

You could also do a primary search for a person ...