Dave, any tips on how to get the best possible search results from Google? I spend a lot of time using Google and seem to have a hard time finding just what I want......

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I keep thinking that Google would hide this, but is there any way to figure out the last time that the Google search engine spider (Googlebot) visited a specific Web page? That'd be particularly useful for competitive research......

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You seem to be the wizard of unwrapping searches on sites and showing how to add them on our own Web sites, which is awesome. I saw - and really liked - your article on how to add a Google...

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I've seen some very nice Google-sponsored search systems on sites like StickerGiant and am wondering how hard that is to implement? I know you've written about how to add a Google search box on your site (see How to add...

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Hi Dave. Maybe I've missed this somewhere, but how do I get the search to only look at one directory in my domain? I'm looking for it to only search files in my help file, but not to look in...

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I have read lots of articles about how to constrain search results on Google by domain, by site, and even how to group words and include "negative" keywords to ensure that I don't get spurious matches. What I haven't figured...

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I think that Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is great fun and want to have that feature on my site, but before I start digging into any sort of coding, can you tell me, how does it work?...

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I'm wondering if there is a way to save the google safesearch preferences for users in a mac os x server environment. We have kids that we would love to have search using only the "strict" filtering. Is there a...

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I see you've posted articles explaining how to put a Google Search Box and Search Results on a website. (see add Google search to your site). But is it possible to be able to store the search phrases typed into...

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I have been using Google's AdSense for Search program for a while now and having some okay results with it. What I'm wondering is whether it's possible to have the search results appear on a page on my site, rather...

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