Google Patents (www.google.com/patents) includes over 8 million full-text patents. Google Patents works in the same way as the Google search engine. Google Patents is the global patent search engine that lets users search through patents from the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), EPO (European Patent Office), etc. This study begins with an overview of how to use Google Patent a...

To Google or not to Google has become in the latest years a big question for researchers: immediate answers, but often thousands; sometimes pertinent, sometimes not reliable or too commercial-oriented. No doubt that Google always ''finds'' something and sometimes it is the only way, or it retrieves real pearls but where does it search? How can a researcher refine or limit the search? That is wh...

Google Hacking continues to be abused by attackers to find vulnerable websites on current Internet. Through searching specific terms of vulnerabilities in search engines, attackers can easily and automatically find a lot of vulnerable websites in a large scale. However, less work has been done to study the characteristics of vulnerabilities targeted by Google Hacking (e.g., what kind of vulnera...

Google as one of the symbols of digital revolution has been influencing the world of searching from different aspects. Moreover, its place as a tool for information retrieval and research, and as a research topic for end-users and researchers is well known. As a result of Google’s pioneership in providing and changing, or to be precise, optimizing its services, it is being utilized by various i...

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Volume 99 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 98 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 97 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Resear...

Volume 99 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 98 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 97 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Resear...

Volume 99 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 98 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Research Database, ProQuest Volume 97 Published by Foundation of Computer Science Indexed with Google Scholar, CiteSeer and CSA Technology Resear...