Command List (ls)

uw
UWhub, a search engine for content related to the University of Waterloo
321 uses - Created 2006-01-02 20:35:44 - Last used 2021-02-12 21:05:31 - Nominate - Description - http://uwhub.ca/?q=%s

pacman
Searches for Arch linux pacman packages. usage: pacman keyword ---------- Old implementation: http://archlinux.org/packages.php?s_repo=all&s_category=all&s_keyword=%s&s_lastupdate=&pp=50
321 uses - Created 2006-05-29 19:19:14 - Last used 2025-07-18 12:40:57 - Nominate - Description - https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=%s

jyumot
Dictionary search on MOT (formerly NetMOT) by Kielikone, accessible for University of Jyväskylä.
321 uses - Created 2008-09-15 19:40:23 - Last used 2013-08-25 00:10:08 - Nominate - Description - http://mot.kielikone.fi/mot/jyu/netmot.exe?UI=file&dic=all&SearchWord=%s

bluray
Search Blu-ray.com for specified movie. Example: bluray slumdog millionaire
321 uses - Created 2010-12-10 10:18:13 - Last used 2024-05-25 11:14:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blu-ray.com/search/?quicksearch=1&section=movies&quicksearch_keyword=%s&searchbutton.x=0&searchbutton.y=0

cheese
Web site dedicated to cheese lovers! Also includes recipes, and even a cheese locater!
320 uses - Created 2005-06-14 16:36:38 - Last used 2025-06-06 05:22:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ilovecheese.com/{eop search.asp?search=@%s@}

booking
Searching for booking.com Hotel One of the world's leading online hotel reservations agencies. The Booking.com website is available in 41 languages and offers over 105000 hotels in 92 countries.
320 uses - Created 2011-01-09 06:47:16 - Last used 2025-08-18 14:51:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.booking.com/

product
Finds a plone product
320 uses - Created 2007-06-08 21:24:50 - Last used 2025-05-29 11:55:40 - Nominate - Description - http://plone.org/search?SearchableText=%s&portal_type%3Alist=PSCProject&portal_type%3Alist=PSCRelease&submit=Search

bbci
BBC iPlayer Search Find a programme on the BBC iPlayer using any keyword Example: bbci eastenders
320 uses - Created 2007-12-13 19:43:36 - Last used 2014-03-28 11:51:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=%s&go=Find+Programmes

ajm
AskJolene movie search only with deep search activated sorted by date ---------- Old implementation: http://search.askjolene.com/search?aid=3&qr=%s&deep=yes&media=mov&sort=date&
320 uses - Created 2008-08-16 20:30:26 - Last used 2024-05-21 11:05:18 - Nominate - Description - http://galleries.askjolene.com/?qr=%s&l=grid&t=dark&sort=date&groupmax=0&media=mov

ss
Sidestep, traveler's search engine
319 uses - Created 2005-07-01 09:17:24 - Last used 2025-07-15 19:06:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.sidestep.com/air/

gtrend
Google trends: plots search frequency, geographic data, and news articles for any subject Examples: gtrend earthquake gtrend gyms, new years resolutions
319 uses - Created 2006-05-11 14:54:53 - Last used 2024-11-03 00:43:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/trends?q=%s

hfs
Forum search at HongFire Anime Networks
319 uses - Created 2007-09-27 19:05:44 - Last used 2024-04-17 18:01:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hongfire.com/forum/search.php?query=%s

twsu
Basic search for real-time Twitter tweets using twitter.summize.com
319 uses - Created 2008-04-26 12:26:41 - Last used 2022-03-06 19:30:00 - Nominate - Description - http://twitter.summize.com/search?q=%s

trailers
Apple.com movie trailers - just a shortcut to the site, not a search command
319 uses - Created 2008-11-01 22:05:18 - Last used 2021-04-03 14:05:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.apple.com/trailers/

rl_user
Rock Legends User Search Go directly to a Rock Legends user profile with a Facebook user's facebook_uid
319 uses - Created 2009-02-26 09:25:15 - Last used 2010-01-27 23:22:49 - Nominate - Description - http://apps.facebook.com/rock_legends/users/show/%s

topsy
SYNOPSIS topsy [keywords] EXAMPLE topsy YubNub Performs a topsy search using the given keywords.
319 uses - Created 2009-05-27 10:08:16 - Last used 2016-07-30 18:46:54 - Nominate - Description - http://topsy.com/search?q=%s

surf
Search surferssurf.com on Technorati.
318 uses - Created 2005-06-28 05:56:52 - Last used 2025-09-14 09:47:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.technorati.com/search/%s?from=http://www.surferssurf.com

gscholar
Search for scholarly literature
318 uses - Created 2006-07-26 11:01:47 - Last used 2025-07-17 01:12:52 - Nominate - Description - http://scholar.google.com/

sheldon
Searches sheldonbrown.com, the most amazing trove of bicycle information on the net. A web 2.0 tribute to a web 1.0 kinda guy.
318 uses - Created 2008-05-01 15:31:10 - Last used 2022-08-05 04:15:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=L%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fsheldonbrown.com%2Fimages%2Fharris_logo.gif%3BLH%3A61%3BLW%3A471%3B&domains=sheldonbrown.com%3Bsheldonbrown.net%3Bsheldonbrown.org&q=%s&btnG=Search&sitesearch=sheldonbrown.com

myml
NAME myml - Mobile Yahoo Mail SYNOPSIS myml [OPTION SEARCH TERM] EXAMPLES myml <<opens Yahoo Mail, mobile version myml chicago <<searchs Yahoo Mail mobile for "chicago" Open or search Yahoo Mail for mobile devices AUTHOR Brian Armknecht b.a.
318 uses - Created 2009-04-06 21:58:10 - Last used 2009-12-13 19:42:25 - Nominate - Description - http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/mail/{eop search?sk=@%s@&fid=Inbox&start=0&submit=Search}

c2 (Golden Egg)
Title search for C2 wiki. Finds pages on the PortlandPatternRepository and WikiWikiWeb by doing a Title Search. To find pages about the WikiWikiWeb: c2 wikiwikiweb To find pages about unittests: c2 unittest
317 uses - Created 2005-06-14 13:36:25 - Last used 2022-04-25 11:59:16 - Description - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?search=%s

loc
Search the Library of Congress (by keyword) Example: loc harry potter
317 uses - Created 2005-10-23 04:47:12 - Last used 2024-04-03 09:46:34 - Nominate - Description - http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=%s&Search_Code=FT*&PID=6157&SEQ=20051023004542&CNT=25&HIST=1

arwiki
Searches the Arch Linux Wiki
317 uses - Created 2009-09-21 14:20:49 - Last used 2012-10-31 03:21:51 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s&fulltext=Search

quc
Search Quidco's list of affiliate deals. Eg. "quc hotels" will return a list of hotel websites with cashback through Quidco.
317 uses - Created 2014-06-04 06:50:50 - Last used 2021-04-21 22:34:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.quidco.com/search/?search=%s

pod (Golden Egg)
Search for podcasts on Podcast Alley.
316 uses - Created 2005-06-13 18:27:53 - Last used 2025-08-09 09:51:18 - Description - http://podcastalley.com/search.php?searchterm=%s

mambo
Search the Mamboserver forums
316 uses - Created 2005-06-23 01:15:23 - Last used 2025-02-18 07:23:39 - Nominate - Description - http://forum.mamboserver.com/search.php?do=process&showposts=0&query=%s

cars
Search MSN Autos for car reviews, specs, prices and consumer reports.
316 uses - Created 2006-05-02 11:20:12 - Last used 2025-05-19 12:25:26 - Nominate - Description - http://autos.msn.com/default.aspx

8t
NAME 8t - Searches for a song, artist, user, or mix on 8tracks.com. SYNOPSIS 8t [search term] 8tracks is a popular site for uploading your own mixes and play lists, you can use the 8t command to search through it. EXAMPLE "8t Mozart" (Will search 8tracks.com for any mix containing "Mozart".)
316 uses - Created 2009-07-29 18:41:58 - Last used 2013-02-10 14:03:29 - Nominate - Description - http://8tracks.com/mixes?q=%s

ebcomp
Ebay Completed Listings Search Handy for gauging current prices for your used items.
315 uses - Created 2006-03-13 05:04:19 - Last used 2021-05-21 05:28:31 - Nominate - Description - http://search-completed.ebay.com/%s[use - for spaces]

oald
Search for a word on the oxford advanced learners dictionary. (considered by many as the best learners dictionary) Example: oald pellucid
315 uses - Created 2007-09-30 21:36:16 - Last used 2018-09-03 03:47:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.oup.com/oald-bin/web_getald7index1a.pl?search_word=%s

metacpan
Search the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network through metacpan.org. Search for modules, authors, dists, etc: metacpan Dist::Zilla metacpan libwww-perl metacpan ANDK
315 uses - Created 2011-07-15 14:26:37 - Last used 2020-10-31 17:16:19 - Nominate - Description - http://metacpan.org/search?q=%s

md
Search Web MD
314 uses - Created 2005-07-01 04:45:10 - Last used 2024-07-30 06:46:38 - Nominate - Description - http://my.webmd.com/search/search_results/?query=%s

lastde
search german last.fm
314 uses - Created 2007-03-21 15:02:55 - Last used 2008-11-02 17:03:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lastfm.de/explore/search/?q=%s

movdb
Search The Movie DB for a movie title
314 uses - Created 2013-10-07 00:22:46 - Last used 2025-07-30 02:30:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=%s

ambr
Searches in the brazillian version of Amazon.
314 uses - Created 2015-05-21 08:15:39 - Last used 2016-09-29 10:35:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com.br/s/?field-keywords=%s

yhz
Search Rex Chen's online English-Chinese dictionary (Ying-Han Xianshang Dianzi Zidian) at Tamkang University in Taiwan
313 uses - Created 2006-05-30 06:29:56 - Last used 2009-12-10 13:43:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ee.tku.edu.tw/~rexchen/cdict/wwwcdict.cgi?word=%s

zend
Search the Zend Framework manual. (english)
313 uses - Created 2008-02-20 00:15:28 - Last used 2024-02-20 09:33:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fframework.zend.com%2Fmanual%2Fen%2F+%s

mpdb
MoviePosterDB.com search. MoviePosterDB.com has movie posters for thousands of movies. To search for a movie poster, just type the movie title. Example: mpdb The Matrix
313 uses - Created 2008-12-16 23:26:09 - Last used 2015-06-10 07:34:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.movieposterdb.com/browse/search?search_type=movies&title=%s

leo-f
LEO German<->French Dictionary.
312 uses - Created 2006-01-22 15:06:13 - Last used 2010-02-03 14:27:48 - Nominate - Description - http://dict.leo.org/?lp=frde&search=%s

enc
Lookup words on MS's encarta website. I use when dict yourword and medict yourword commands fail--like when looking up "squidgy". ========== Old implementation: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561508127/%s.html
312 uses - Created 2008-02-17 02:27:54 - Last used 2020-08-24 07:27:56 - Nominate - Description - http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?&search=%s

tiwi
Searches TibiaWiki
312 uses - Created 2008-09-28 17:34:36 - Last used 2015-05-10 22:01:42 - Nominate - Description - http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

ldoce
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Search
312 uses - Created 2009-09-16 14:09:12 - Last used 2016-12-04 17:58:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ldoceonline.com/search/?q=%s

drc
Search on www.dracotienda.com
312 uses - Created 2010-01-25 00:39:36 - Last used 2025-01-10 06:18:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.dracotienda.com/advanced_search_result.php?osCsid=59e09aea7aaa9b74a0596f63b86d7d3b&search_in_description=0&inc_subcat=1&keywords=%s&x=10&y=9&osCsid=59e09aea7aaa9b74a0596f63b86d7d3b

gpol
Search in Google Polska
311 uses - Created 2006-01-16 00:11:48 - Last used 2012-02-13 19:07:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.pl/search?hl=pl&q=%s

mskb
Searches the Microsoft Knowledge Base
311 uses - Created 2006-02-28 14:17:36 - Last used 2016-07-21 08:28:40 - Nominate - Description - http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?&query=%s

rdba
Search for artist on rolldabeats.com
311 uses - Created 2007-02-26 22:41:59 - Last used 2012-08-29 23:46:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rolldabeats.com/search/artist/%s

lq
Canlii search in Quebec laws and regulations titles...
311 uses - Created 2007-06-03 15:47:14 - Last used 2022-05-18 05:51:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/search.do?language=fr&searchTitle=Qu%C3%A9bec&searchPage=eliisa%2FjurisdictionSearch.vm&jurisdiction=qc&text=&id=%s&startDate=&endDate=&legislation=legislation

tumblrtag
Simple search for tumblr tags, mainly intended for iPad, which doesn't have a search box. Usage: tumblrtag search terms
310 uses - Created 2012-07-22 04:08:03 - Last used 2019-03-18 16:53:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/%s

wipl
Polska Wikipedia - Polish Wikipedia
310 uses - Created 2008-06-12 07:09:00 - Last used 2012-05-24 06:39:56 - Nominate - Description - http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Szukaj

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