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YubNub.org is more than just a strange name. It’s the first social search engine. While the default search is Google, certains commands will let you search other sites as well. You see YubNub is also the first command-line search engine. For instance typing “wp” before your search criteria will let you search Wikipedia.org. (i.e. “wp Cincinnati”)

There are an entire slew of commands. “gim” for instance will search Google images. And simply typing “ls” will give you a list of commands.

Popular commands:

gnews - Searches Google News
cnn - Searches CNN
am - Searches Amazon
weather - Gets weather for zip code
flk - Searches Flickr

Now where this site gets really cool is you can create your own commands. I did say it was social right? Just type in “create YOURCOMMANDNAME” and if it isn’t taken you will be able to create your own command with that name.

For instance I created two new searches. “cincy” will search Cincinnati.com. So if you type in “cincy reds win” it will bring up all articles from the Cincinnati Enquirer, WCPO, CiN Weekly, and The Post. The second new command is “dwb”. It will search this blog. So if you type “dwb yubnub” you will find this post.

Commands I Created:

cincy - Searches Cincinnati.com
dwb - Searches this blog
redbooks - Searches IBM redbooks

Do you YubNub?

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