Google Hacks

Google by Email

Access 10 of Google’s search results at a time via email.

Long before the Web existed, there was email. And now, thanks to the Google API, there’s Google email. Created by the team at Cape Clear (http://capescience.capeclear.com/google/), CapeMail queries Google via email. Send email to [e-mail] with the query you want on the subject line. You’ll receive a message back with the estimated results count and the first 10 results. Here’s an excerpt from a search for Frankenstein:

Estimated Total Results Number = 505000
URL  = "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/Frankenstein/frankhome.html"
Title = "Frankenstein Exhibit Home Page"
Snippet = "Table of Contents Introduction The Birth of Frankenstein, 
The Celluloid Monster. Promise and Peril, Frankenstein: The Modern 
Prometheus. ... "
URL  = "http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/Frankenstein/"
Title = "Online Literature Library - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein"
Snippet = "Next Back Contents Home Authors Contact, Frankenstein. Mary 
Shelley. Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; 
Chapter 5; Chapter ...  "

Like many other Google API applications, CapeMail may be used only 1,000 times per day; the Google API allows the use of the API key only 1,000 times a day. Don’t rely on this to the exclusion of other ways to access Google. But if you’re in a situation where web searching is not as easy as email—you’re using a mobile phone or PDA, for example—this is a quick and easy way to interface ...