Yubnub/Search Related Commands

YubNub users save a step or two when it comes to searching the World Wide Web. By using YubNub commands, they no longer have to go to a particular search page to type in and submit their queries. Search engine queries A lot of search sites do not crawl the web themselves, but use an index from another search engine. The following YubNub commands provide quick access to those search engines: g (google or gg) search using Google y search Yahoo ask search with Ask a9 search A9 alta search Altavista wlive search Live Special options gfl (goto or ifl) search Google using the "I Feel Lucky" feature ggn (g2 or g9) search Google in the "Browse by Name" mode, a hybrid between "I Feel Lucky" and a standard search ggs use Google suggest as you type, now the default for a standard Google search. superg does most Google searches in one command ysite (or explore) displays the pages indexed by Yahoo for the given site ylinks displays the links to a site according to Yahoo's index Popular types of search These include other portals to search engines as well as searching for specific types of information. all (or atw) search Alltheweb bgo search (maybe win) using Blingo brain search BrainBoost dp Dogpile search mss Microsoft MSN Search sema SearchMash twin search via Twingine Image search gim search Google for images yim (or yimages) find Yahoo images limg search Live for images flcc search Flickr for photos published with a Creative Commons (CC) license mashim search images using a mash-up of Google, Yahoo, and Flickr Map search gmaps (gm or gm2) search maps provided at Google ymaps search maps at Yahoo geocode use Geocoder to return the latitude & longitude for an address topoz use zip code to find a topographic map at Trails Word search This category includes online dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus search. = (define, meaning, or equals) search for a word's meaning at Dictionary dict search for definitions at Dict.org fdt search TheFreeDictionary mw (webster) search the Merriam-Webster database speak Speaks a single word, via the Merriam-Webster dictionary's audio files cambridge Cambridge dictionary lookup olrd (onelook or ol) search OneLook Reverse Dictionary wordref consult WordReference ona search OneAcross dictionary dfn define query Google wikis (wiki or wp) search Wikipedia =? search the Thesaurus rwords see relationship between words using Lexical FreeNet bartleby search for references in great books online at Bartleby thesaurus search the Merriam-Webster thesaurus gdef (gdefine or gdeff) performs a Google definition search wnet searches online dictionaries using die.net a (answer or ans) searches Answers File search hype search for audio tracks download search for files at Download News search gnews (or gnws) search news at Google ynews (or xny) search news at Yahoo Blog search tec (or tecn) search Technorati ljseek search LiveJournal entries spht search for blog posts related to a particular URL Weather search w (or weather) search for local weather information at Weather wu use zip code to search WeatherUnderground fc use zip code to find forcast using AccuWeather yweather (or yw) find weather info from Yahoo Directory search c411phone do a reverse phone search using Canada411 directory phone search WhitePages residential telephone listings ypeople find people by surname zab use Zabasearch to find people Book search am (amazon or ama) search for books at Amazon asinlookup look up the ASIN number for an Amazon item, given the items URL bi search Wikipedia using the ISBN number freebook title word search for books available at Penn's online book page Example: freebook beagle freebook-author author search for books available at Penn's online book page nypl search the New York Public Library sprk search for SparkNotes guides sworldcat worldcat -isbn {scrapeisbn1 ${kw}} -where ${where=19460} Mashes up worldcatlibraries.org and ISBNdb.com Comics search cmc search Comics cmcx search GoComics dilbert read the Dilbert comic strip garfield read the Garfiled comic strip Movie search imdb search the International Movie Database imdbq (or moviequote) search for movie quotes using IMDB nytmovies search through the New York Times movie reviews Music search sing find a song with Sing365 tabs 911tabs meta-search tabs for a song discogs search the Discogs database of music information musipedia search Musipedia.org for music by specifying if the notes goes up, down or repeats using a series of u's, d's and r's as arguments, where u=up, d=down and r=repeat Example: musipedia rrrudrrrrrrrrrdrrrr Result (among others): Lennon-McCartney (Beatles): Yellow Submarine (chorus) Television ontv search tv listings by zipcode and select a local provider tvg search for the show title via TV Guide tv.com TV search bbctv search for BBC radio and television programs mtvsearch search MTV simpsons read what TheSimpsonsQuotes serves up Subject search Aviation airport find airport information using World-Airport-Codes airportinfo view pilot aviation information from FlightAware metar lookup METAR observiations via the National Weather Service taf get Terminal Aerodrome Forcast for any ICAO station avtrack track aircraft in real-time using Flight Aware Genealogy roots search genealogy in the RootsWeb database. Geography cia search the CIA's world factbook for information on different nations nme search for information on a country via NationMaster Health gweecal check calories at The Daily Plate clab search using the Calorie Counter at CalorieLab Mathematics math (or mathworld) search MathWorld mathlinks (or mth) search the MathLinks forum mathdef Lucky Google search of the Springer Online Encyclopedia of Mathematics Physics apsgoto search Reviews of Modern Physics hsw search on How Stuff Works jphys (or iop) search and IOP journal