Google Apps Hacks

216 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

By appending and incrementing another parameter, start (&start=0, &start=1, &start=2, etc.),

you can also subscribe to multiple feeds for a single query to get more photos. For information

of additional parameters of this feed, like output, adult_ok, or coloration, please see the Yahoo

Image Search Web Service documentation at http://developer.yahoo.com/search/image/V1/

imageSearch.html.

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Don’t beat about the bush—not even when linking to video

content.

Demetrius is a blogger who regularly points to video content. Today he wants to link to a longer

Google Video, which he found using the advanced search options at http://video.google.com/

videoadvancedsearch (he restricted results to documentaries with a duration of over 20 minutes).

But his blog post discusses only the revealing bit into the twelfth minute of the video, and Demetrius

would like to send his visitors straight to that part, too.

Lucky for Demetrius—and you, if you want to point to a specic position within a Google Video—

Google offers a feature to achieve this. A normal Google Video URL looks like the following:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858262932217432628

Play the movie until the part you want to point to, and check the minutes and seconds shown in the

video status bar. Let’s say that it’s reading 12:20 / 1:32:45, meaning that ...