*>>

SYNOPSIS
       *>> [engine] [Yubnub command|URL] [query]

EXAMPLES
       *>> viv wp list of paradoxes
	   Makes a search in Vivisimo for "list of paradoxes" restricted to the domain of the English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

       *>> ask cnn priests
	   Makes a search in Ask Jeeves! for "priests" restricted to CNN's domain (cnn.com)

       *>> alta kottke job
	   Makes a search in Altavista for "job" restricted to Kottke's domain (kottke.org)

       *>> clusty http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bathingape zeldman
	   Makes a search in Clusty for "zeldman" restricted to A List Apart's domain (alistapart.com)

       *>> a9 http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002252.php poetry
           Makes a search in A9 for "poetry" restricted to Language Hat's domain (languagehat.com)
          
DESCRIPTION
       This command is as an internal search (hence the ">>" part), via the engine selected by the 1st param, of the website hinted by the 2nd param, for the query specified in the 3rd param. The engine that you select has to be able to understand the "site:" syntax but that's a fair bet in modern search engines.

       A more precise description: Yubnub generates a URL by interpreting the 2nd param as a Yubnub command, it then extracts a domain name from that URL and uses it to configure a search for the 3rd param, in the engine specified by the 1st param. It's noteworthy that the "yubnub" command had to be used in this command's code.

       There are basically 2 ways to use this command, and both I find very convenient. First, you can use a Yubnub command for the 2nd param to hint at the website inside which you want a search. This is is convenient because it saves you from typing URLs by leveraging your knowledge of Yubnub commands. This usage is represented by the first 3 examples.

       For the 2nd usage to be practical you should have installed Yubnub in your Firefox toolbar (and this is, imho, THE way to use Yubnub). OK, so here's a case example: say you somehow fall on this page, http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002252.php. You find there some commentary on an Emily Dickinson's poem and are interested in what else the site may have about poetry. Being a natural-born-Yubnubber, you CTRL-L to the location bar, prepend ">> clusty" to the URL, and append "poetry" at the end, so your new URL is: >> clusty http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002252.php poetry. You type Enter and behold!: You've just searched for "poetry" via Clusty, restricted to Language Hat's domain (languagehat.com).

RELATED COMMANDS:

       >>, y>>, >, >>>, y>>>, <, <<, <<<

AUTHOR
       Eliazar
       elzr.com