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'' top ten business paperbacks in May 2003, considered at the time to be "unprecedented" for a technology book, and "even rarer" for the topic of search engines. The book was first published by

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in February 2002. The third edition of the book was released in 2006. It covers tips of all kinds, from usage hints for the novice just using Google, to advice for the expert programming the

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. Much of the content provided in the book can also be used for Google Hacking, the act of finding security issues through Google searches. Most programming examples are written in

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. The second edition was published in December, 2004 ().
There was also a third edition published ().

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