books.google.com— Using this simple search term, you can view (nearly) every page in a whole book. I wanted to read the book "Hacking the XBOX" by Bunnie, so this is how I did it. Is this legal?
Dec 6, 2005View in Crawl 4
regular expressions also work. this returned all pages except those with just pictures:a.*|e.*|i.*|o.*|u.*They do filter .* as too general a query.Google won't fix this. If someone automates book copying, google will just break that system instead.
To echo the voices above:Google LIMITS your page views per book. Even if you can query every page, you can only view 20 or so pages before Google begins displaying a message telling you to buy the book.So, if you query every page, choose the ones you want to view carefully. Google WILL cut you off (unless you create a new account...but that's a serious waste of time).
For those who play with insanely long search terms who obviously have not read my first post, just use this:of|onyou get each page this way. It looks like this triggers some bug in the search, because both words are usually ignored by google, yet are not a search term like AND or OR.
I'm on the Google Book Search team and just wanted to let you guys know that although a (sufficiently clever) search within a book may list many of the book's pages in your search results, you can't actually see all those pages (for books that aren't in the public domain). This is because most of the books in Google Book Search today are from the Partner Program where publishers give us permission only to show some pages. So, there are total-page-view limits, scrolling restrictions (2 pages each way), restricted pages (requiring login), and blocked pages (to all users) – and no, opening multiple browser windows doesn't allow you to view the complete book. Thanks.
dude3609Dec 6, 2005
Tested,a | the | and | but | of | on | from | it | if | it | isseems to give me more results..USE THAT
gamerzworldDec 6, 2005
Now all we need is an unrestricter.
glassmanDec 6, 2005
regular expressions also work. this returned all pages except those with just pictures:a.*|e.*|i.*|o.*|u.*They do filter .* as too general a query.Google won't fix this. If someone automates book copying, google will just break that system instead.
bluelaserDec 6, 2005
To echo the voices above:Google LIMITS your page views per book. Even if you can query every page, you can only view 20 or so pages before Google begins displaying a message telling you to buy the book.So, if you query every page, choose the ones you want to view carefully. Google WILL cut you off (unless you create a new account...but that's a serious waste of time).
tomskagDec 6, 2005
no, this is cool.when iu searched for "hackign the xbox"i got alot of the pages removed
dearreidDec 6, 2005
Is that because you spelled it "hackign"?
futoshiDec 6, 2005
excellent! my first Digg post!
martinusDec 6, 2005
For those who play with insanely long search terms who obviously have not read my first post, just use this:of|onyou get each page this way. It looks like this triggers some bug in the search, because both words are usually ignored by google, yet are not a search term like AND or OR.
audiothinkDec 6, 2005
"I just viewed the first 30 pages of Digital Fortress--from one account only." - meCorrection: A handful of those 30 were restricted pages.
n3ldanDec 7, 2005
Restricted pages suck :(
jimgDec 8, 2005
I'm on the Google Book Search team and just wanted to let you guys know that although a (sufficiently clever) search within a book may list many of the book's pages in your search results, you can't actually see all those pages (for books that aren't in the public domain). This is because most of the books in Google Book Search today are from the Partner Program where publishers give us permission only to show some pages. So, there are total-page-view limits, scrolling restrictions (2 pages each way), restricted pages (requiring login), and blocked pages (to all users) – and no, opening multiple browser windows doesn't allow you to view the complete book. Thanks.