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Hack 19. Go Beyond Google's Advanced Search
Soople augments the functionality of GoogleAdvanced Search with comprehensive yet easy-to-use forms for every
Google occasion .Google may have started as a simple search engine, but it got past
that a long time ago. Now it offers calculators, converters, number
ranges, dictionaries, stock symbol search, and UPS package tracking.
That wealth of offerings makes it a great handy reference tool, but
who can remember all those search syntaxes? Well, pour yourself a nice hot bowl of Soople (http://www.soople.com) and perform advanced
searches with ease. Soople provides several dozen search interfaces,
each geared toward a particular Google search feature or property
(see Figure 1-32). By providing you with
prefabricated yet flexible specialized search forms, Soople helps you
concentrate on your reference task and not on building syntax.
Figure 1-32. Soople's dozens of interfaces, aimed at just the Google search you're after
allowing you to filter for particular file types, break out searches
by language, hunt down images, news, and definitions, and more. And
it doesn't stop there. At the top of the page are
five tabs: calculators, translation tools, phone and location
lookups, and a Superfilter. All of Soople's results
appear in regular Google results pages; there's no
use of the Web API here, just custom search forms pointing at Google
proper.As an example of just how detailed Soople gets, the calculator page
is actually 10 different forms covering different mathematical
functionsfrom trigonometric functions to conversion to finding
percentages and roots.
1.31.1. See Also
Soople takes building custom search forms to an extreme (and very
useful) conclusion; see [Hack #18]
for more inspiration. Check out [Hack #48]
for specialty forms with a narrow focus.
