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yubnub

Staggering Jack — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:50:06 -0800

Yubnub - a social command line for the web

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:58:04 -0800

More info here.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:07:24 -0800

Why?

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:15:07 -0800

I tried a Google search and a Yubnub search on Sun Ra (I dunno, that term - a musician - always seems to point to the pluses and minuses of vaious search engines/databases) and got exactly the same results. After reading the "More info here" link, I gather that people more technologically advanced than me are impressed. OK.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:28:27 -0800

This would be useful if you could use pipes, composite commands and custom flags.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:29:53 -0800

it's a very cool idea, but yeah, pipes are required to make this useful

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:40:08 -0800

Pipes. ?? Sorry, I promise never to post on anything remotely technological again. Howza about the latest brouhaha about Thomas Szaz (via Reason and A&L Daily)

By: WaterSprite

WaterSprite — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:45:31 -0800

peacay: you are always good at explaining things - why use this as opposed to Google?

By: WaterSprite

WaterSprite — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:46:32 -0800

aghhh. This post will probably be gone by the time you get to it.

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:00:47 -0800

WaterSprite - this application appears to be not a search engine per se but rather a command line that uses many different online resources. You can use different commands (the full list is here) to access different information from different websites. For instance, entering "wireless 97201" will come back with wi-fi hotspots in Portland from jwire.com; entering "def libidinous" will give you the definition of that word from answers.com; "am nick horby" will give you the amazon listings for that author. You can also create your own commands.

By: zenzizi

zenzizi — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:22:35 -0800

in firefox it's easy to make those "command line" keywords from any form textfield on the web.. right click and "add a keyword for this search".. i use "amazon" - "download" - "images" - "imdb" - "wiki" - all the time.. (actually does the trick to yubnub.com and command-lines it!)

By: Jack Karaoke

Jack Karaoke — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:06:59 -0800

Exactly zenzini.. in his blog he says he was tired of entering the same keywords on 5 different machines. Now he just goes to nubnub.. or I guess puts it in Firefox like you said.

By: Chasuk

Chasuk — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:43:33 -0800

Zenzini: Would you mind giving a slightly more detailed explanation of this feature?

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:39:40 -0800

zenzini: That's awesome. I've always constructed my keywords by hand before.

By: bwerdmuller

bwerdmuller — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:11:33 -0800

This actually kind of rocks; I can see how it could be very useful, but will rock more if it gets integrated into Firefox et al. Obviously we can do this by hand ourselves, but if it was somewhere by default I'm sure its functionality would improve by leaps and bounds. Pipes would also be very, very cool.

By: TheophileEscargot

TheophileEscargot — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:58:21 -0800

Gah, now I've got that song in my head. Yub nub, eee chop yub nub, toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah. Yah wah, eee chop yah wah, toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah Coat ee chah tu yub nub, Coat ee chah tu yah wah, Coat ee chah tu glo wah. allay loo ta nuv Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam, ah toot dee awe goon daa. Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!) coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!) coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!) allay loo tu nuv (3 times) Glo wah, eee chop glo wah. Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam, ah toot dee awe goon daa allay loo tu nuv! Looks like an interesting search tool though.

By: blag

blag — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:28:14 -0800

Chasuk: when you find a search page that you'd like to turn into a keyword search in firefox, right-click on the search box and select "Add a Keyword for this search..." Chose a title and keyword and click ok. Then you can type the keyword, followed by the search terms directly into the firefox address bar. E.g. go to the wikipedia site, right-click in the search box on the left, select "Add a keyword for this search..." and give it a title and keyword of "wiki". Now you can type in "wiki chester" (without the quotes) into the address bar to be taken straight to the wiki page on Chester.

By: teatree

teatree — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:47:40 -0800

I like the idea, except while looking at the "all commands" page, here, it allows for squatting on useful tags. For example, there's gotta be a better use for "foo." (apologies to Mark Foo's crazy blog.) I fear the moment that some wiseguy decides to write a script to upload every available dictionary noun that starts with "X" to point to his homemade pr0n. Or even worse, Target gets the same idea...

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:13:52 -0800

It's things like this that make me feel as if I'm not getting enough out of the internet. Firefox's functionality is so far beyond what I need that, although this seems cool, I can't really tell when I would need to use it. It makes me feel inadequate.

By: pemdasi

pemdasi — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:19:39 -0800

My thoughts exactly, teatree. As soon as I saw the command listing I though "Spam bait". If it becomes even remotely popular you can be sure it'll happen. Starting with typos.

By: therealadam

therealadam — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:14:58 -0800

I saw this and thought "that's pretty cool". Jon seems to have no shortage of neat little ideas that he executes on, something I lack. Anyway, it seems the solution that he really needs is a way to sync Firefox profiles so that his addressbar shortcuts are wherever he is. Anyone know of something like this?

By: Jack Karaoke

Jack Karaoke — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:20:06 -0800

Or just run portable Firefox...

By: peacay

peacay — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:34:19 -0800

WaterSprite writes "peacay: you are always good at explaining things" huh? But if anyone does come back here...gataga social bookmark search page would seem to a potentially very useful addition to the search arsenal. But I'm otherwise with OmieWise - I'm never sure what I need/want and whether my world will still rock in my corner of ignorance.