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google

by Fahad Al Mahmood

 

13 Dec 2004 (Updated 23 Dec 2004)

Shortcut for web searching using Google's different search areas (images, groups, etc.).

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GOOGLE Searches in Google in different search areas (images, groups, etc.)
 
  SYNTAX
 
  google(text)
  google(text,'search_area')
  google(text,'search_area',param,value,...)
 
  DISCRIPTION
 
         text: User entered text to search for.
 
         search_area: If not specified, then the default is 'web'.
               Can be one of the following:
               'web': Searches the web.
               'images': Searches Google Images.
               'groups': Searches Google Groups.
               'news': Searches Google News.
               'froogle': Searches Froogle.
               'scholar': Searches Google Scholar.
               'catalogs': Searches Google Catalogs.
               if it starts with '+', then it will turn the option of (I'm
               Feeling Lucky!) on!
 
         param: Can be one of the following:
               'pages':
               'lang':
               'ext':
 
  USER CONFIGURABLE OPTIONS
   
        Possible param/value options are:
            'pages' - search in pages of specific language. Can be:
                    'ar' Arabic
                    'bg' Bulgarian
                    'ca' Catalan
                    'zh-CN' Chinese (Simplified)
                    'zh-TW' Chinese (Traditional)
                    'hr' Croatian
                    'cs' Czech
                    'da' Danish
                    'nl' Dutch
                    'en' English
                    'et' Estonian
                    'fi' Finnish
                    'fr' French
                    'de' German
                    'el' Greek
                    'iw' Hebrew
                    'hu' Hungarian
                    'is' Icelandic
                    'id' Indonesian
                    'it' Italian
                    'ja' Japanese
                    'ko' Korean
                    'lv' Latvian
                    'lt' Lithuanian
                    'no' Norwegian
                    'pl' Polish
                    'pt' Portuguese
                    'ro' Romanian
                    'ru' Russian
                    'sr' Serbian
                    'sk' Slovak
                    'sl' Slovenian
                    'es' Spanish
                    'sv' Swedish
                    'tr' Turkish
 
            'lang' - google page language. Can be one of the above.
            'ext' - (country domain extension)
                    (ex, 'ae','us','uk','br','it','fr','mx','nl',... etc)
 
  Examples:
  
        google('Nasa Shuttle')
        google('Nasa Shuttle','News')
        google('free download','web')
        google('free download','+web')
        google('simpsons','images')
        google('simpsons','images','pages','se')
        google('Nasa Shuttle','web','ext','AE')
        google('Nasa Shuttle','web','lang','fr')
        google('Nasa Shuttle','web','lang','fr','pages','fr','ext','FR')

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Updates
23 Dec 2004

Added options for languages, and specific country domain search.

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