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
editA 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
editThese 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
editThis 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
editAviation
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