After finding this question I have been researching as the other answers seem out of date. The Google search API would be the obvious choice as quoted by other users however it is now been deprecated in favour of Custom Search API. Although not obvious at first the Custom Search API does allow you to … Read more
If you look at the css code : body { -moz-animation-duration: 4s; -moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; -moz-animation-name: roll; }
It’s HTML character references for encoding a character by its decimal code point Look at the ASCII table here and you’ll see that 39 (hex 0x27, octal 47) is the code for apostrophe
You have to create a Google Search Console account and add your page, then typically you just drop a “marker” file in the root (Search Console generates this) so that Google can confirm you really own the page. Google Search Console Instructions (Since the instructions are long and have many links to sub-steps, I’m only … Read more
I attended a panel at SXSW a few years ago called “F*ck Standards” which was all about breaking from standards when it makes sense. There was a Google engineer on the panel who talked about the Google home page failing validation, using deprecated tags, etc. He said it was all about performance. He specifically mentioned … Read more
Update: this answer is no longer applicable as of 2017. See https://blog.google/products/search/improvements-searching-special-characters-programming-languages/ Google strips most punctuation from queries, as described here, so it won’t help you with the bash syntax. It’s very easy to search for the string “##” in the bash documentation: Just run “info bash”, hit “s”, and enter “##” as the search … Read more
If you want to get a detailed answer take a look at section 3.8 this paper, which describes the URL-seen test of a modern scraper: In the course of extracting links, any Web crawler will encounter multiple links to the same document. To avoid downloading and processing a document multiple times, a URL-seen test must … Read more
Maybe this is not the best solution, but here’s one way that doesn’t require coding or add-ons for Chrome and Firefox. Assume there are similar ways to do this for IE and others, though at least IE will usually open PDFs in the browser with the link in the url bar at the top which … Read more
As of 2017-07-31, Google removed this feature entirely from search. I created the open source Web Search Navigator extension to fix this and add extra features (like configurable keyboard shortcuts). See installation instructions. Hope you find it useful, but in any case – feedback is welcome!
UPDATE: Google have just published a blog article called Google Instant, behind the scenes. It’s an interesting read, and obviously related to this question. You can read how they tackled the extra load (5-7X according to the article) on the server-side, for example. The answer below examines what happens on the client-side: Examining with Firebug, … Read more