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Here’s what happens when you search for single letters on Google:

• A: Apple
• B: BHPhotoVideo.com
• C: C-SPAN
• D: D-Link
• E: E! Online
• F: FuckedCompany.com (probably due to being referred to as ‘F***edCompany’ or similar)
• G: Gmail (not the main Google site, interestingly)
• H: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• I: iTunes
• J: Jennifer Lopez (really!)
• K: K Mart
• L: the Council of Europe (?!?)
• M: Texas A&M University
• N: AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web’n Homepage
• O: O’Reilly Media
• P: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Q: Q4Music.com, the website for the UK music magazine ‘Q’
• R: The R Project For Statistical Computing
• S: McDonald’s (note the apostrophe-S!)
• T: AT&T
• U: The University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona
• V: V for Vendetta, the official site
• W: W Hotels, a subsite of StarwoodHotels.com
• X: X.Org
• Y: Yahoo! Messenger (not the main Y! site)
• Z: A To Z Teacher Stuff

Interestingly I got to see the new Google search results page, with the
sidebar, once. It must be in the process of rolling out…

Tags: google letters searching

This post was written by Justin, source: Single-Letter Google Hits

A quick hack –

goog-love.pl - find out where your site’s google juice comes from

This script will grind through your web site’s “access.log” file (which must be
in the “combined” log format). It’ll pick out the top 100 Google searches
found in the referer field, re-run those searches, and determine which ones are
giving your website all the linky Google love — in other words, the searches
that your site ‘wins’ on.

The output is in plain text and a chunk of HTML.

usage:

goog-love.pl sitehost google-api-key < access.log > out.html

e.g.

cat /var/www/logs/taint.org.* | goog-love.pl \
  taint.org 0xb0bd0bb5yourgoogleapikeyhere0xdeadbeef | tee out.html

NOTE: this script requires the SOAP::Lite module be installed. Install
it using apt-get install libsoap-lite-perl or cpan SOAP::Lite.
It also requires a Google API key.

For example, here are the current results for this
site. You can immediately see some interesting stuff that’s not
immediately obvious otherwise, such as my site being the top hit for [beardy
justin]

• #1 for kriskat225: http://taint.org/2006/01/20/220239a.html
• #1 for kriskat224: http://taint.org/
• #1 for mailman rss: http://taint.org/mmrss/index.html
• #1 for ray is naked: http://taint.org/2005/05/27/195421a.html
• #1 for beardy justin: http://taint.org/2005/09/10/002323a.html
• #1 for threadless rss: http://taint.org/2005/05/25/060857a.html
• #1 for louis fitzgerald: http://taint.org/2005/05/12/020118a.html
• #1 for download JusteTune: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=apple
• #1 for mobile repair delhi: http://taint.org/2005/11/11/032651a.html
• #1 for site:taint.org mythtv: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=hdtv
• #1 for “Google Map” IDS rulesets: http://taint.org/2005/09/
• #1 for spam email “prank a friend”: http://taint.org/2004/11/
• #1 for site:taint.org mythtv freevo: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=mythtv
• #1 for world map desktop background: http://taint.org/xplanet/
• #1 for kate thornton + Samuel L jackson: http://taint.org/2003/12/10/185721a.html
• #1 for when did chris horn leave iona technologies?: http://taint.org/2003/05/
• #2 for natkat224: http://taint.org/
• #2 for itms linux: http://taint.org/2005/09/20/022107a.html
• #2 for msn IDs hacking software: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=hacking
• #3 for gmail spam filter: http://taint.org/2004/04/15/033025a.html
• #3 for live world map on desktop: http://taint.org/xplanet/
• #4 for moin mozex: http://taint.org/2004/10/08/081409a.html
• #4 for editable p45: http://taint.org/2005/01/27/025238a.html
• #4 for urban dead exploits: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=games
• #4 for gmail spam filtering: http://taint.org/2004/04/15/033025a.html
• #4 for world map desktop wallpaper: http://taint.org/xplanet/
• #5 for cdwow.ie: http://taint.org/2003/12/04/185038a.html
• #5 for life hacking: http://taint.org/2005/10/17/210751a.html
• #5 for Adelphi Charter: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=politics
• #6 for irish SME: http://taint.org/2005/06/23/212513a.html
• #6 for urbandead: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=hacks
• #6 for SKY NEWS IRELAND: http://taint.org/2004/05/12/205717a.html
• #7 for daniel cuthbert: http://taint.org/2005/10/12/205836a.html
• #7 for SAMUEL L. JACKSON QUOTES: http://taint.org/2003/12/10/185721a.html
• #7 for cool background pictures: http://taint.org/xplanet/
• #8 for CDWOW: http://taint.org/2003/12/04/185038a.html
• #8 for urban dead: http://taint.org/2005/10/29/224403a.html
• #8 for korea porn: http://taint.org/2003/07/12/031422a.html
• #8 for BBC port 8998: http://taint.org/2003/08/
• #8 for iftop documentation wrt: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=freevo
• #8 for php mail injection spam: http://taint.org/2005/12/08/202248a.html
• #8 for fake open source software : http://taint.org/index.php?tag=open-source
• #9 for faad symbian: http://taint.org/index.php?tag=apple
• #9 for sky news ireland: http://taint.org/2004/05/12/205717a.html
• #9 for telemarketing counter speech: http://taint.org/2002/11/12/130851a.html
• #10 for “Scratch Heads Over”: http://taint.org/2003/07/12/031422a.html
• #10 for web scraper linux console: http://taint.org/2004/06/05/023726a.html

Download here (4 KiB perl script).

goog love.pl google hacks perl scripts searching software

This post was written by Justin, source: Another script: goog-love.pl