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Google Hacks

by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Meandering Your Google Neighborhood

Google Neighborhood attempts to detangle the Web by building a “neighborhood” of sites around a URL.

It’s called the World Wide Web, not the World Wide Straight Line. Sites link to other sites, building a “web” of sites. And what a tangled web we weave.

Google Neighborhood attempts to detangle some small portion of the Web by using the Google API to find sites related to a URL you provide, scraping the links on the sites returned, and building a “neighborhood” of sites that link both the original URL and each other.

If you’d like to give this hack a whirl without having to run it yourself, there’s a live version available at http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/04.html#who_are_the_people_in_your_neighborhood. The source code (included below) for Google Neighborhood is available for download from http://diveintomark.org/projects/misc/neighbor.py.txt.

The Code

Google Neighborhood is written in the Python (http://www.python.org) programming language. Your system will need to have Python installed for you to run this hack.

""" neighbor.cgi Blogroll finder and aggregator """ _ _author_ _ = "Mark Pilgrim (f8dy@diveintomark.org)" _ _copyright_ _ = "Copyright 2002, Mark Pilgrim" _ _license_ _ = "Python" try: import timeoutsocket # http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(10) except: pass import urllib, urlparse, os, time, operator, sys, pickle, re, cgi, time from sgmllib import SGMLParser from threading ...
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