Command List (ls)

ces
CrossEngine Search Uses www.crossengine.com to search for your keywords Example: "ces Lifehacker" initially searches Google but you can click on the tabs to search for the same term using any other search engine you wish. Also, searches are grouped according to type e.g.image searches are on one tab, news searches are on another tab, etc.
139 uses - Created 2007-02-23 23:12:27 - Last used 2022-09-21 02:34:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.crossengine.com/search.php?q=%s

blow
Send a Ping to Google Blog Search when you have updated your blog. Type: blow [BLOG URL] Example: blow www.lifehacker.com
139 uses - Created 2007-08-14 13:11:57 - Last used 2026-03-02 07:36:37 - Nominate - Description - http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?url=%s&btnG=Submit+Blog&hl=en

g$
Google Finance Main Page
139 uses - Created 2008-10-07 14:45:14 - Last used 2018-02-06 20:10:10 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.google.com

chmdoc
Searches CHARMM documentation (for version c34b1) for the provided argument using Google.
138 uses - Created 2008-06-01 14:30:14 - Last used 2012-07-27 12:01:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charmm.org%2Fdocumentation%2Fc34b1&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charmm.org%2Fdocumentation%2Fc34b1

masturbate
Search for porn on google. Simple and effective. Necessitates only one hand.
138 uses - Created 2005-06-13 16:07:01 - Last used 2023-03-22 08:15:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

mvn2repo
For maven module hunters out there, finds poms etc in the maven 2 repo
138 uses - Created 2007-12-04 09:54:20 - Last used 2014-01-13 08:33:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=site%3Arepo1.maven.org%2Fmaven2+%s+&btnG=Search

addig
Pass an XML url as parameter and it will be added to your igoogle pages. Handy for gadgets developers.
138 uses - Created 2008-04-25 17:08:23 - Last used 2009-04-26 03:33:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=%s

g.ar
Searchs in google.com.ar as well as "gar", but only argentinian pages. Example: results of "g maradona" are 6,760,000 pages, and results of "g.ar maradona" are 1,010,000.
137 uses - Created 2006-08-27 08:09:24 - Last used 2006-12-23 23:05:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=es&cr=countryAR&q=%s

gmc
Google Maps Content Search. This is for the new Google Maps Content pages. Just a standard search: gmc [query]
137 uses - Created 2007-07-11 18:09:46 - Last used 2023-07-14 21:43:13 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.com/ig/directory?synd=mpl&pid=mpl&features=sharedmap%2Cgeofeed&hl=en&gl=us&q=%s

gbgs
NAME gbgs - Google Blogger search SYNOPSIS gbgs [strings to search] -title [post title] -Btitle [blog title] -sort [by attribute] -lang [language] -q [more strings to search] EXAMPLES Search blogs with "jessica alaba" in any part of the post and "sex" in the title of the POST: gbgs jessica alba -title sex Search blogs with "yahoo" in any part of the post and "google" in the title of the BLOG: gbgs yahoo -Btitle google Search Italian blogs that talk about "yahoo": gbgs yahoo -lang it Search Ital…
137 uses - Created 2005-09-28 16:43:43 - Last used 2023-02-20 14:34:25 - Nominate - Description - http://search.blogger.com/?q=%s%20${q} {ifThen -value1 ${title} -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then +intitle%3A${title}}&bl_fpy=t&scoring={ifThen -value1 {ucase ${sort=BY+RELEVANCE}} -value2 BY+DATE -test EQUAL -then d}&lr={ifthen -value1 ${lang} -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then lang_${lang}}&bl_name=${Btitle}

gmv
Search Google Movies (which includes such things as showtimes), without "movies" in the search term (like the "movies" command. To find out about the movie The Life of Brian: Example: gmv life of brian
136 uses - Created 2006-03-04 00:54:25 - Last used 2025-06-30 04:35:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&oi=showtimes&near=%s&q=movie:+%s

mashim
NAME mashim - mash up `gim', `yim', `xim', and `flk' SYNOPSIS mashim [KEYWORD] EXAMPLES mashim guitar Search images using Google, Yahoo, Flickr in one command
136 uses - Created 2006-06-16 17:40:41 - Last used 2012-10-05 11:42:09 - Nominate - Description - mash %s gim yim xim flk

chirest
NAME chirest - Search Google Local, Metromix, Centerstage, and Chicago Reader for information about a restaurant SYNOPSIS chirest [RESTAURANT NAME] EXAMPLES chirest Sweets and Savories chirest Tsuki This command does a split view of a Google Local map of your restaurant alongside "I'm Feeling Lucky" searches for the restaurant at metromix.com, centerstage.net, and chicagoreader.com. NOTES Since this command uses the "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, it works best for restaurants with with fairly uniq…
135 uses - Created 2006-04-11 20:00:28 - Last used 2009-06-09 14:47:42 - Nominate - Description - split {url gmchi %s} {url > mmix %s} {url > centerstage %s} {url > chicagoreader.com %s}

gnewsjp
Performs a Google search using the given keywords in "Google News" (Japanese)
135 uses - Created 2008-12-13 09:03:50 - Last used 2021-08-18 09:32:54 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.co.jp/news?hl=ja&ned=jp&q=%s

grsub
Google Reader - View / Subscribe to a Feed Brings up the indicated feed inside Google Reader and offers you a chance to make it one of your subscriptions. Example: either of these works grsub http://googlereader.blogspot.com/atom.xml
135 uses - Created 2009-02-09 15:55:19 - Last used 2012-07-10 14:31:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/reader/view/{eop #stream/feed/@%s@}

cloud
Weather. Uses your google location.
135 uses - Created 2009-06-30 21:32:28 - Last used 2024-04-22 15:03:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=weather

ggnews
with the changes made at google, gnews doesn't work as it should .. so I created this alternative
135 uses - Created 2012-01-31 07:38:43 - Last used 2017-11-28 21:53:38 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.com/news?q=%s

ggg

134 uses - Created 2005-06-21 08:24:05 - Last used 2025-01-29 16:50:54 - Nominate - Description - www.google.com

ggrp
Search Google Groups.
134 uses - Created 2006-02-23 20:31:17 - Last used 2015-06-03 13:34:32 - Nominate - Description - http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s

qa
Google Calendar Quick Add feature. Type qa and then description of the event.
133 uses - Created 2009-12-08 20:10:58 - Last used 2026-02-03 14:56:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/calendar/event?ctext=+%s+&action=TEMPLATE&pprop=HowCreated%3AQUICKADD

sgmaa
Like sgma but this one opens up the 'all mail' menu.
133 uses - Created 2007-12-20 12:22:17 - Last used 2009-05-27 12:56:03 - Nominate - Description - https://mail.google.com/mail/#all

gnewsit
google news italia
132 uses - Created 2007-04-24 12:56:31 - Last used 2011-09-09 23:12:41 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.it/news?hl=it&ned=it&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&btnG=Cerca

hdhd

132 uses - Created 2011-05-22 11:30:03 - Last used 2024-12-01 00:46:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=planetsuzy+high+definition+%s

gtrcaes
GTranslate Catalan -> Espanyol
132 uses - Created 2012-02-15 16:20:58 - Last used 2017-12-16 17:31:22 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/#ca|es|%s

bvg
Bing vs Google - side by side comparison of Bing results and Google results.
131 uses - Created 2009-08-26 18:07:49 - Last used 2025-09-18 07:45:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bing-vs-google.com/?q=%s

figure
same as gim (Google Image) but optimized for Mobile devices. For e.g. figure apple (Display apple image on your mobile phone)
131 uses - Created 2006-01-30 13:30:01 - Last used 2025-05-18 03:34:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3D%s&hl=en&lr=&mrestrict=xhtml&q=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3D%s&_gwt_noimg=0

gmas
Secure gmail search. Perform a google search in gmail through a secured "https://" connection. Example: "gmas important" Will find every mail which contains the word "important"
130 uses - Created 2008-05-15 09:40:47 - Last used 2023-10-18 11:34:20 - Nominate - Description - https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/%s

be4
Buscar en google, yahoo mexico, bing y wikipedia en español
130 uses - Created 2009-07-16 16:31:05 - Last used 2015-01-26 09:38:04 - Nominate - Description - mash2 %s -cmd g ymx b wpe

ngl
Search Google using Neroogle, a custom black interface made for saving energy. Example: ngl energy saving
130 uses - Created 2007-08-21 23:45:01 - Last used 2020-02-24 03:29:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/custom?cx=010721524243729869169%3Auvwopbxpc84&cof=AH%3Aleft%3BALC%3A%23999999%3BBGC%3A%23000000%3BCX%3ACerca%2520in%2520Italiano%3BDIV%3A%23000000%3BFORID%3A1%3BGALT%3A%23666666%3BGFNT%3A%23CCCCCC%3BGIMP%3A%23CCCCCC%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enerooogle%2Ecom%2Fimages%2Fnerooogle3%2Ejpg%3BLC%3A%23999999%3BLH%3A80%3BLP%3A1%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enerooogle%2Ecom%3BT%3A%23CCCCCC%3BVLC%3A%23666666%3B&q=%s&sa=Cerca&adkw=AELymgXsPLIpF3E0slbtMwB8KikQE8WRoxjw4ApYUrw_Q1gPob18_h7G69HPtsRZ8dpPHc2LKiesniQD1Im7N1tWXZvP5zmx9OWNy6pvCXd_wQhhFj2KIAFJJHzjaGVlzPwRNQw75ZV2wgPlgX5ddzgUQ9m-RybOXeSxrjiHgJqLE8kXqjQe6HY&hl=it&client=pub-3847491925495723&channel=0654184908

mvars

130 uses - Created 2007-12-03 09:30:09 - Last used 2009-03-18 10:07:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amartinvarsavsky.net+%s

wb
About WebCrawler WebCrawler is simply the easiest way to find better search results from more of the Web. Get Better Results, Easier WebCrawler uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, Looksmart and more. With one single click, WebCrawler searches the best results from the combined pool of the world's leading search engines -- instead of results from only one single search engine. And WebCr…
129 uses - Created 2005-12-27 15:43:17 - Last used 2023-08-19 07:53:40 - Nominate - Description - http://webcrawler.com/

viewyt
viewyt uses a slight variation of the firstyt YubNub command to search and play the YouTube way embedded into your browser window. viewyt [KEYWORD(S)] See http://www.google.com/support/youtube pablo7 AT inbox DOT com ========== Old implementation: echo <script type="text/javascript" <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch/{scrape -tokens /default.jpg ytimg.com/vi/ -dirs 0 1 -url {url yt %s}}&autoplay=1&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="tr…
129 uses - Created 2008-05-07 22:31:18 - Last used 2025-10-26 15:55:14 - Nominate - Description - echo <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/{scrape -tokens /default.jpg ytimg.com/vi/ -dirs 0 1 -url {url yt %s}}&rel=1&autoplay=1&hl=en&vq=2&fmt_map=6/720000/7/0/0"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{scrape -tokens /default.jpg ytimg.com/vi/ -dirs 0 1 -url {url yt %s}}&rel=1&autoplay=1&hl=en&vq=2&fmt_map=6/720000/7/0/0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>[no url encoding]

realtime
Google's Realtime Search
129 uses - Created 2010-08-26 19:48:06 - Last used 2019-03-19 13:47:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?tbs=mbl:1&hl=en&source=hp&esrch=RealtimeLaunch::Experiment&q=%s&btnG=Search

ico
NAME ico - Displays the favicon of a website. SYNOPSIS ico [DOMAIN] EXAMPLES ico yubnub.org This command displays a PNG image of a website's favicon, as found on Google Shared Stuff (S2). NOTES Inspired by http://www.labnol.org/internet/get-favicon-image-of-websites-with-google/4404/. AUTHOR Scott Frey scott dot frey at gmail dot com
128 uses - Created 2008-09-04 17:12:44 - Last used 2025-10-21 23:05:18 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/s2/favicons?domain=%s

showtime
Description: Find local showtimes for movies in your area with Google Instructions: Type "showtime" and your city or town Example: showtime tulsa <<<city or showtime tulsa, OK <<<city, then state or 74133 <<<Zip code or tulsa 74133 <<<city, then Zip code or tulsa, OK 74133 <<<All combined Author: Troy
128 uses - Created 2006-07-20 16:01:03 - Last used 2023-05-23 19:42:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/movies?hl=en&near=%s&dq=movies&sort=1&sa=X&oi=showtimes&ct=title&cd=1

toogle
finds an ascii image for the phrase eg. toogle sunshine will generate you a color ascii sunshine based one google image search results.
128 uses - Created 2005-08-27 02:00:12 - Last used 2024-11-28 20:01:47 - Nominate - Description - http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=%s

afl
NAME afl - does a anonymous google lucky search. (proxy.cjb.net) SYNOPSIS afl [query] EXAMPLES afl mairie de paris opens http://www.paris.fr.proxy.cjb.net/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=1 This command triggers a google feeling lucky commands, similar to gfl and sfl, but all anonymous. The lucky command is triggered via proxy.cjb.net, and the result is processed via the proxy. Thus both search and result are anonymous. RELATED COMMANDS similar to: gfl, sfl other anonymity commands: gan, gpro…
127 uses - Created 2006-02-27 18:58:23 - Last used 2025-06-20 16:40:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.proxy.cjb.net/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

grap
Cerca link rapidshare
127 uses - Created 2009-03-14 08:28:40 - Last used 2012-01-18 19:41:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&num=50&newwindow=1&q=%s+intext%3Arapidshare.com%2Ffiles&btnG=Cerca&meta=&aq=f&oq=

17fw
Performs a Google Books Search for full view content (both books and magazines) published in the eighteenth century, that is, from 1600 to 1699.
127 uses - Created 2009-11-03 16:20:48 - Last used 2015-07-08 03:41:13 - Nominate - Description - http://books.google.com/books?lr=&as_brr=1&q=%s&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=12&as_miny_is=1600&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=1699

megup
Megaupload search in google
127 uses - Created 2009-12-10 05:43:55 - Last used 2012-01-16 18:12:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amegaupload.com+%s

htcmania
Busca en HTCMania
127 uses - Created 2011-03-14 00:36:48 - Last used 2016-12-16 14:49:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/cse?cx=007261832843182926612%3Aquhscstgemg&ie=UTF-8&q=%s

chisearch
NAME chisearch - Search Chicago-Related websites SYNOPSIS chisearch [SEARCH TERM] EXAMPLES chisearch alinea Search these sites for Chicago-related info: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=&find_loc=Chicago%2C IL http://www.chicagojournal.com http://yochicago.com/ http://www.chicagoist.com/ http://www.gapersblock.com/ http://www.centerstage.net/ http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/ http://www.chicagoreader.com/ http://www.lthforum.com/bb/index.php http://www.cityofchicago.org/ More sites may be…
127 uses - Created 2006-11-04 17:06:11 - Last used 2014-08-20 08:45:33 - Nominate - Description - http://armknecht.com/chicagosearch/index.html?cx=011255494792324003159%3Aq4vnduxzs30&q=%s&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9

myspac
Search myspace
127 uses - Created 2007-05-03 08:09:07 - Last used 2010-02-16 04:20:01 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=site%3Amyspace.com+%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

prcheck
Check PAgeRank. Checks Google PageRank of given page. Example: prcheck http://www.mikrofotobanky.cz also possible without the http: prcheck http://www.yubnub.org
126 uses - Created 2006-08-29 08:43:33 - Last used 2011-01-24 00:22:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.checkpagerank.com/?url=%s

gbk+
Add a google bookmark
126 uses - Created 2006-09-26 12:24:51 - Last used 2012-01-24 07:19:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&hl=en&zx=dj4JWJhQbDQ&title=+&bkmk=%s&labels=

gmapca
Google Maps Canada
126 uses - Created 2005-07-07 17:53:33 - Last used 2013-07-09 15:49:37 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=%s

gfight
Battles word one (-1) and word two (-2) for results on google. The one with the most results wins. syntax: gfight -1 yub -2 nub
126 uses - Created 2005-07-14 04:28:52 - Last used 2011-11-15 09:56:23 - Nominate - Description - http://google-fight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=${1}&word2=${2}

gve
Find with Google Venezuela / Buscar con Google Venezuela.
126 uses - Created 2010-02-18 18:09:55 - Last used 2018-05-15 14:11:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.co.ve/search?hl=es&source=hp&q=%s

iyt
mobile optimized youtube search
125 uses - Created 2009-05-24 22:35:20 - Last used 2024-11-12 10:53:06 - Nominate - Description - http://m.youtube.com/results?client=mv-google&gl=US&hl=en&q=%sa&submit=Search

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