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wth
Runs a search on Wikisaurus, the wiki-based thesaurus. Example: wth afraid
6407 uses - Created 2009-04-12 21:02:50 - Last used 2026-09-07 14:17:43 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&ns110=1&fulltext=Search+Wikisaurus

lifehacker
Uses Google.com to search the Lifehacker website. Example: lifehacker reminders
6403 uses - Created 2007-01-31 03:29:06 - Last used 2026-02-17 11:57:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alifehacker.com+%s

lucky
Search using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature. Instead of returning a list of matches for your search, it redirects you to the best match right away. Example: lucky Zhang Ziyi
6388 uses - Created 2005-07-31 16:14:36 - Last used 2026-03-22 22:13:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

mendic

6385 uses - Created 2016-05-28 03:32:28 - Last used 2018-12-15 05:32:46 - Nominate - Description - http://m.endic.naver.com/search.nhn?query=%s

ced
Searches the Collins English Dictionary online for a word definition.
6383 uses - Created 2012-10-09 15:03:40 - Last used 2026-10-03 18:10:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/%s

iate
Search EN>ES on IATE
6377 uses - Created 2014-11-10 11:30:07 - Last used 2019-05-29 16:46:42 - Nominate - Description - http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&valid=Search+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=es&domain=0&typeOfSearch=s&request=&query=%s

ol
Onelook.com search (Dictionary Index) command for any word.
6357 uses - Created 2005-06-16 16:38:06 - Last used 2026-07-26 14:05:28 - Nominate - Description - http://onelook.com/?w=%s

wordref
Consults wordreference.
6338 uses - Created 2006-03-21 16:51:27 - Last used 2024-03-13 12:35:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/definition/%s

gvoice
Google Voice https://www.google.com/voice
6329 uses - Created 2009-03-13 15:42:30 - Last used 2019-05-15 19:23:21 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/voice

xvideos
Search for adult movies on xvideos.com
6321 uses - Created 2008-07-03 06:25:00 - Last used 2026-09-26 15:00:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xvideos.com/?k=%s

map (Golden Egg)
use Multimap for worldwide map searches - postcode, town name, etc. ========== Old implementation: http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?quicksearch=%s&client=public&lang=&advanced=
6310 uses - Created 2005-06-08 10:18:17 - Last used 2026-10-02 01:05:05 - Description - http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=%s&countryCode=GB

ugs
Ultimate guitar song
6302 uses - Created 2006-08-14 21:20:17 - Last used 2017-01-07 14:40:03 - Nominate - Description - http://ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?s=%s&w=songs

lj (Golden Egg)
Jump to a given LiveJournal user's journal. "lj <username>" "lj <username>/friends/" should also take you to the friends page in question.
6298 uses - Created 2005-06-06 21:37:08 - Last used 2023-09-23 21:32:49 - Description - http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s[no url encoding]

hcw
Go to WhatsApp Web
6285 uses - Created 2020-10-04 08:06:09 - Last used 2026-05-30 09:13:07 - Nominate - Description - https://web.whatsapp.com/

the

6239 uses - Created 2005-07-10 17:41:07 - Last used 2026-09-30 21:50:51 - Nominate - Description - https://www.google.com/search?q=the+%s

ymail
open yahoo mail
6187 uses - Created 2005-07-11 11:38:02 - Last used 2026-07-19 20:18:31 - Nominate - Description - http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us

cl
CraigsList
6179 uses - Created 2005-06-10 18:00:11 - Last used 2026-09-08 12:52:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.craigslist.org/{eop search/sss?query=@%s@}

ml.ar (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS ml.ar [keywords] EXAMPLE ml.ar camaras digitales Searches MercadoLibre.com.ar using the given keyword (e.g. product name)
6172 uses - Created 2005-06-09 13:16:09 - Last used 2026-09-09 05:53:47 - Description - http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/search?as_word=%s

ask
Ask Jeeves
6159 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:36:01 - Last used 2026-08-14 07:00:07 - Nominate - Description - http://web.ask.com/web?q=%s&qsrc=0&o=0

ytmt
Your Turn My Turn games website
6131 uses - Created 2010-07-07 19:06:46 - Last used 2019-07-02 19:53:35 - Nominate - Description - http://yourturnmyturn.com

ucc (Golden Egg)
Universal Currency Converter Usage: ucc <amount> <fromCurrency> <toCurrency> Example: ucc 100 USD EUR Currency 3 letter abbreviations available here: http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm Thanks to Adrienne for inspiring this with the xe command. The main difference is the xe command requires switches, e.g -amount -to -from, because {% n } was not available when it was created. Author: Sam Inverso
6111 uses - Created 2007-08-07 06:49:05 - Last used 2026-05-28 20:15:19 - Description - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount={% 1 %s}&From={% 2 %s}&To={% 3 %s}[no url encoding]

gmfr
Search Google Maps France
6109 uses - Created 2007-12-23 10:04:07 - Last used 2026-10-04 11:25:15 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=%s

rtm
Takes you to your Remember the Milk page (if you're logged in)
6096 uses - Created 2005-10-31 23:00:34 - Last used 2019-09-16 00:50:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

javascript
Runs the provided javascript code using javascriptwindow.com
6066 uses - Created 2006-07-27 21:32:27 - Last used 2026-03-04 18:08:02 - Nominate - Description - http://www.javascriptwindow.com?code=%s

ii
short ixquick
6048 uses - Created 2006-10-29 01:50:07 - Last used 2026-04-27 13:55:18 - Nominate - Description - http://us.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cmd=process_search&language=english&ff=&query=%s

warez-bb
Title only search for the DDL site warez-bb host to many links
6039 uses - Created 2007-12-28 09:36:49 - Last used 2021-04-24 11:45:47 - Nominate - Description - http://www.warez-bb.org/search.php?search_keywords=%s&search_fields=titleonly&search_terms=all

gib
Split view image and blog search
6014 uses - Created 2006-09-07 11:06:55 - Last used 2023-04-29 02:33:38 - Nominate - Description - splitv {url[no url encoding] gim %s} {url[no url encoding] gooblogs %s}

gh
Search for projects on github.com git, home of git repository hosting & general development awesomeness
6006 uses - Created 2005-06-21 02:18:29 - Last used 2026-10-03 20:37:12 - Nominate - Description - http://github.com/search?q=%s

#
Google.com's I'm Feeling Lucky command.
5998 uses - Created 2006-03-24 09:05:59 - Last used 2026-02-23 04:20:34 - Nominate - Description - http://google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

wwr
WordReference english to spanish traductor
5992 uses - Created 2009-04-26 13:13:01 - Last used 2021-02-04 17:24:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=%s

hoogle (Golden Egg)
The Haskell API Search Engine. Hoogle allows you to search by either name, or by approximate type signature. Example searches: hoogle map hoogle (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] hoogle Ord a => [a] -> [a]
5991 uses - Created 2005-10-31 16:48:53 - Last used 2025-04-10 08:30:02 - Description - http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=%s

perp
Perplexity AI search engine search
5983 uses - Created 2023-03-07 07:00:00 - Last used 2026-06-17 09:35:49 - Nominate - Description - https://www.perplexity.ai/?q=%s

skreemr
SkreemR Search. Searches the self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Audio Search Site." Usage: skreemr (artist name, title, etc.) -l (number of results per page, 10 is default) -s (result number to begin at plus 1 {0, the default, displays the first result, etc.}) Examples: skreemr dethklok thunderhorse -l 100 -s 0
5979 uses - Created 2007-06-18 18:46:36 - Last used 2011-11-26 00:19:20 - Nominate - Description - http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?l=${l=10}&s=${s=0}&q=%s

ya
Search Yahoo!
5978 uses - Created 2005-06-23 03:04:50 - Last used 2024-04-05 06:35:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yahoo.com

iafd
Query the internet adult film database. The search can be for a movie by title, performer, or review.
5966 uses - Created 2005-08-21 12:43:56 - Last used 2026-09-30 13:27:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.iafd.com/results.asp?searchtype=comprehensive&searchstring=%s

gimyim (Golden Egg)
Compare Google Images and Yahoo Images example: gimyim lantana b.a.
5915 uses - Created 2005-08-04 20:03:52 - Last used 2026-05-17 09:24:49 - Description - split http://images.google.com/images?q=%s http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?&p=%s

phone (Golden Egg)
WhitePages.com Residential Directory Assistance Search Find phone book listings by searching based on name, address, or phone number. Examples: phone (206) 802-2120 phone 206-802-2120 phone John Smith, Seattle, WA phone John Smith, 98107 phone 4802 Third, Seattle, WA phone 4802 Third, 98107
5903 uses - Created 2005-06-20 14:55:18 - Last used 2026-07-08 06:27:26 - Description - http://www.whitepages.com/search/SingleField?q=%s

awq
Arch Linux wiki search.
5899 uses - Created 2006-09-02 23:03:45 - Last used 2026-05-12 08:55:44 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s

ccrd
Cook County Document Image Search. Pulls up the image based on the Document number and Date of Recording. Admittedly, this has a VERY limited appeal.
5899 uses - Created 2007-06-20 20:01:42 - Last used 2012-11-02 20:29:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ccrd.info/CCRD/controller?optflag=DocumentImageCommand&doc_num={% 1 %s}&record_date={% 2 %s}[no url encoding]

luckyecho (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS luckyecho [keywords] EXAMPLE luckyecho beautiful descriptions results in: http://eemadges.com/ luckyecho command line for the web results in: http://www.yubnub.org/ Echoes the URL of the first result of googling your keywords. SIMILAR COMMANDS am> (luckyecho is actually a building block for this command) AUTHOR elzr.com Sean O'Hagan's scrape command, as always, was a pleasure to use. ---------- Old implementations: scrape -tokens class=l href=%22 %22 -dirs 0 1 0 -url {url g %s} scrape …
5844 uses - Created 2006-07-24 03:47:59 - Last used 2025-08-19 07:37:42 - Description - scrape -tokens href=%22/url?q= &amp;sa=u -dirs 0 0 -url {url g %s}

metalband
Searches in Metal Archives for a band.
5831 uses - Created 2005-06-21 10:27:25 - Last used 2020-03-03 10:14:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.metal-archives.com/search.php?string=%s&type=band

gmapsuk
Searches Google Maps UK
5829 uses - Created 2005-06-17 09:37:24 - Last used 2021-01-07 11:18:03 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=%s

crmod
Looks up Oracle CRMoD by Opportunity ID
5829 uses - Created 2013-01-15 00:04:03 - Last used 2016-10-14 18:01:43 - Nominate - Description - https://secure-slsomxuna.crmondemand.com/OnDemand/user/OpportunityDetail?OpptyDetailForm.Id=%s

4ch
SYNOPSIS 4ch [abbreviation of board] EXAMPLES 4ch b 4ch x Goes to the specified 4chan imageboard, given by its abbreviation (e.g. b for random, x for paranormal). ---------- Old implementation: http://cgi.4chan.org/%s/imgboard.html
5808 uses - Created 2007-05-27 20:34:31 - Last used 2026-09-12 22:44:33 - Nominate - Description - http://4chan.org/%s

css
It allows you to get to CSS documentation. cssdocs border takes you to W3C documentation for the border property.
5780 uses - Created 2006-12-22 12:11:55 - Last used 2026-06-23 23:01:32 - Nominate - Description - http://cssdocs.org/%s

kwiki
Does a search on KOL Visual Wiki.
5760 uses - Created 2006-05-04 07:10:55 - Last used 2024-04-11 02:31:16 - Nominate - Description - http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=%s&sourceid=Mozilla-search

fl (Golden Egg)
SYNOPSIS fl [tag] EXAMPLE fl lake Retrieves photographs from Flickr tagged with the given tag. The example above shows you photos that people have tagged with "lake". Flickr is a popular online photo-sharing application.
5745 uses - Created 2005-06-06 00:26:03 - Last used 2026-09-16 03:03:30 - Description - http://flickr.com/photos/tags/%s

alley

5719 uses - Created 2010-07-15 12:46:25 - Last used 2024-01-18 03:07:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.businessinsider.com/sai

en2fr
Dictionary translation for English words into français. Includes several examples.
5710 uses - Created 2005-10-01 04:44:47 - Last used 2018-10-05 04:24:01 - Nominate - Description - http://fr.wordreference.com/fr/translation.asp?enfr=%s

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