I am posting my review and link here on 55 ways.

In case you guys create a post when you get your copy could you pls share the linky here

http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/55_ways_to_have_1.html

i can't have any fun with google right now as gmail
is not working... it's been dead for a few hours now.

starting to consider using a diff email provider as gmail seems to
be in trouble often. why?

sorry for the offtopic post

Peter has more:
http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/debate_on_ghack.html

umm.. where can I buy a copy of this?

Here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/296615

Thanks!!

This lulu site is Soslowwww
but eventually I'll get it too :)

I got mine this morning.

You'll have to give me a few days to read it before I can comment though... ;-)

Hey Tony, yeah looking forwad to your comments!!

Mine finally arrived yesterday!! :-)

I say 'finally' only because I was impatient. It was really pretty quick considering it's 'self-published.' I ordered it on 1 June and it arrived 12 June.

I've read through to page 62 so far, and have enjoyed (and learned from) every page. I'll come back with more comprehensive comments when I've finished reading, but it's great!

I do want to say now, though, how utterly impressed I am with the physical quality of the book; the text clarity, cover & binding quality, etc. As anxious as I was to read Philipp's text I was also anxious to observe the quality of a 'self-published' work from Lulu, and I am very, very impressed. This book is indistinguishable from something from a giant publishing house on the shelf of your local bookstore.

Great! When you come back with more I'll add your comments to the Lulu reviews page.

Phillip, is there an available feedback form on the 55fun site ??

I dont see one, i think it will be a good idea too

I added a note to http://55fun.com just now...

My thoughts are here...
http://ruscoe.net/blog/2006/06/review-55-ways-to-have-fun-with-google.asp

just got my copy yesterday – loved it!
Even my wife has been reading it and she isn't really into Google herself.

Great job Philipp

Wow!! That's an awesome book!! Very informative, interesting, and humerous!! Loved it.

I was just browsing the PDF (thanks for making it available – great fun!), and noticed the following on page 36:

"It’s an online suppository where people can upload practically any data that has a structure."

Now, I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that that's supposed to be "repository"... :-)

Thanks Arnout, I'll add that to the list of corrections for a future version of the book.

Philipp: I've just started reading, but already know it will be great!

BTW, I'm in the middle of my own book, also about Google! :-) Unfortunately, it will be published in Polish only...

Great read so far. There's some neat tricks that I never thought to use.

Cool, I just scored a 130; I guess that means I'm spending way to much time following google :P

Great stuff! Here is a review on my German site:

http://www.thomasweller.de/2006/06/25/spass-mit-google

Thanks,

Thomas Weller

Finished reading the PDF a couple days ago. Loved it! One of the best books I've ever read!

Lessig has a post too :)-

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003458.shtml

Poor Lawrence, his blog got a big spam problem...

GooglePages spam. That's new.

yeah, that sucks.

I was attacked by the .r u folks with trackback spams last week.. It was a tidal wave of trackback spam and across the long weekend I was cleaning up. I now have posted disabled for Trackbacks.. that sucks too as the blog becomes blind sided and I have to resort to manual methods for tracking

Forum

Looks like someone converted the book to HTML:

http://digg.com/tech_news/55_Ways_to_have_fun_with_Google!

Good job, but Grimme ought to add character encoding... I get lots of missing chars on every page!

I just got it last night and read the introduction before going to bed. I love the term "instant knowledge" you used in the third paragraph, which exactly matches what I feel about Google, is it you who coined this term?
Just curious.
Thank you for your generous effort. This is the first book I will go through for the coming month.

Frank

I suppose the term was around, but I'm not sure! Hope you enjoy the book.

yeah yeah.. "instant knowledge" is Philipps terms!!

with google blogoscoped my IQ grow 20% on google --just like that!! :)_

thanks for the book phillip!
the answer to question 12 on the quiz (page 83) is incorrect, though!

Thanks Vin, I will add this to the corrections.

yea. many positiv feedback. i think i will order a copy soon. :-)

I tried "Bemmu's Cure for Google Irritation" and it only CAUSED irritation. A giant 404 error image is coming up over the game--probably a problem in the bemmu cafepress ad meant to be below the game?