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SYNOPSIS
       < [Yubnub command|URL] [query, optional] -pool [number, optional, default is 7]

EXAMPLES
       < cnn
       Takes you to http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/

       < dilbert
       Takes you to Doonesbury.com

       < britannica.com thermodynamics
       Takes you to the Infoplease article for Thermodynamics.

       < britannica.com thermodynamics -pool 20
       Takes you to the Wikipedia article for Thermodynamics. Pool is the number of related websites among which to search, the search pool, and so, the higher the number, the lower the average relatedness. Of course, here I would argue that Wikipedia is much more related to Britannica than Infoplease, but Google doesn't agree, ranking Wikipedia in the double digits by it's relatedness to Britannica.

       < nytimes.com alito
       Takes you to a CNN news article about Alito.

       < http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/31/005202.shtml microsoft
       Takes you an article in CNet news about Microsoft.

       < http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bathingape stylists
       Takes you to the Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report for 3-4 May 2003

DESCRIPTION
       A universal external "I'm feeling lucky!" command! (Similar to StumbleUpon's and Alexa's related-links)

       < uses Google to obtain a list of websites related to your 1st param (of which a domain name is extracted thru extractDomainName), and then uses this list to restrict a Google "I'm feeling lucky!" search for your 2nd param. Simple but usually pure magic.


       There are 2 main ways to use this command, and both I find very convenient. First, you can use a Yubnub command for the 1st param. This is is convenient because it saves you from typing URLs by leveraging your knowledge of Yubnub commands. This usage is exemplified by the first 2 examples.

       For the second usage to be really 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.alistapart.com/articles/bathingape. You find there an article discussing the difference between stylists and designers and, suddenly interested in the topic, want to find what a similar website has to say about the topic. Being a natural-born-Yubnubber, you CTRL-L (or ALT-D, or F6) to the location bar, prepend < to the URL, and append stylists at the end, so your new URL is: < http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bathingape stylists. You type Enter and behold!: You're automagically taken to Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report for 3-4 May 2003, where he has a related post, "Art direction vs. design". Ain't life grand?

NOTE
       < is based on Google's related feature, which is sometimes moody, giving usually accurate but occasionally different results. This means that < can do something one time, and something else another time. This is a feature. ^_^

RELATED COMMANDS:
       <<, <<<, >, >>, >>>

AUTHOR
       Eliazar
       elzr.com