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Google hack? What? That's no hack, that's the way google is supposed to be used, you know...

Turing_Machine 12y ago
Ah, you're one of those who thinks that hacking has something to do with breaking into a computer. I think maybe you're on the wrong site.
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- psykovsky 12y ago
  I'm one of those something something? I'm on the wrong site? Does that even mean anything?
  - Turing_Machine 12y ago
    http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html Note the first definition.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  I don't think this inference is justified. It's also not nice. My guess psykovsky just thinks that this is too lame of a trick to be called a hack, being a part of documented Google Search functionality, which explains his comment equally well while not suggesting he doesn't know what the word means. Principle of charity FTW ;).
TeMPOraL 12y ago
Hack = trick in this case; most people don't know you can tweak Google search queries like that.
- psykovsky 12y ago
  Maybe people should read the user manual before actually using the tool. This isn't a trick, it's just using google the way it was programmed to be used. Those are documented features of the google search engine, they are no "hacks".
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    Did you read the user manual for Google? Even if, the fact is, most people don't. This is a trick insofar as most of the people don't know it. There are no obvious links to any kind of Google Search manual, and those features are not clearly advertised anywhere, so they can be treated like tricks of "those in the know". There are many meanings to word hack, and while some uses are more stretched than others, this one isn't that bad. Want to pick on something really meaningless? Try "growth hacking". BTW. Creative uses of those features are actually called "google dorks" and are collected in a database[0]. [0] - http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/ http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
  - Turing_Machine 12y ago
    By that standard, everything you do on a computer is "using it the way it was programmed to be used." It's all in the CPU instruction set, after all. It's all documented. Everyone should just read the manual. Right?
    - psykovsky 12y ago
      Right. Or wrong. Why do I even bother answering... You remind me of my 12 year old son. He also fetches the most ridiculous notions from who knows where to justify some of the silly things he does and says.

Ah, you're one of those who thinks that hacking has something to do with breaking into a computer. I think maybe you're on the wrong site.

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psykovsky 12y ago
I'm one of those something something? I'm on the wrong site? Does that even mean anything?
- Turing_Machine 12y ago
  http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html Note the first definition.
TeMPOraL 12y ago
I don't think this inference is justified. It's also not nice. My guess psykovsky just thinks that this is too lame of a trick to be called a hack, being a part of documented Google Search functionality, which explains his comment equally well while not suggesting he doesn't know what the word means. Principle of charity FTW ;).

TeMPOraL 12y ago

Hack = trick in this case; most people don't know you can tweak Google search queries like that.

psykovsky 12y ago
Maybe people should read the user manual before actually using the tool. This isn't a trick, it's just using google the way it was programmed to be used. Those are documented features of the google search engine, they are no "hacks".
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  Did you read the user manual for Google? Even if, the fact is, most people don't. This is a trick insofar as most of the people don't know it. There are no obvious links to any kind of Google Search manual, and those features are not clearly advertised anywhere, so they can be treated like tricks of "those in the know". There are many meanings to word hack, and while some uses are more stretched than others, this one isn't that bad. Want to pick on something really meaningless? Try "growth hacking". BTW. Creative uses of those features are actually called "google dorks" and are collected in a database[0]. [0] - http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/ http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
- Turing_Machine 12y ago
  By that standard, everything you do on a computer is "using it the way it was programmed to be used." It's all in the CPU instruction set, after all. It's all documented. Everyone should just read the manual. Right?
  - psykovsky 12y ago
    Right. Or wrong. Why do I even bother answering... You remind me of my 12 year old son. He also fetches the most ridiculous notions from who knows where to justify some of the silly things he does and says.