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
 * 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

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