Yubnub/Search Related Commands
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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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- hype
- search for audio tracks
- download
- search for files at Download
News search edit
- gnews (or gnws)
- search news at Google
- ynews (or xny)
- search news at Yahoo
Blog search edit
- tec (or tecn)
- search Technorati
- ljseek
- search LiveJournal entries
- spht
- search for blog posts related to a particular URL
Weather search edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- cmc
- search Comics
- cmcx
- search GoComics
- dilbert
- read the Dilbert comic strip
- garfield
- read the Garfiled comic strip
Movie search edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Aviation edit
- 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 edit
- roots
- search genealogy in the RootsWeb database.
Geography edit
- cia
- search the CIA's world factbook for information on different nations
- nme
- search for information on a country via NationMaster
Health edit
- gweecal
- check calories at The Daily Plate
- clab
- search using the Calorie Counter at CalorieLab
Mathematics edit
- math (or mathworld)
- search MathWorld
- mathlinks (or mth)
- search the MathLinks forum
- mathdef
- Lucky Google search of the Springer Online Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Physics edit
- apsgoto
- search Reviews of Modern Physics
- hsw
- search on How Stuff Works
- jphys (or iop)
- search and IOP journal