# 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