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