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luck
Google's I'm feeling lucky search.
888 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:45:12 - Last used 2025-02-10 22:52:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?biw=1020&hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

gimage
Google image search
7365 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:31:38 - Last used 2024-02-07 23:41:09 - Nominate - Description - http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&hl=en

stalker

28 uses - Created 2005-06-24 23:09:07 - Last used 2023-07-17 02:50:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xanga.com/putoutmyfire

mov
Movie listings at local regal theatres by zipcode. Listings through Fandango.
168 uses - Created 2005-06-24 22:28:41 - Last used 2023-08-03 03:32:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fandango.com/TheaterListings.aspx?location=%s&source=cityzipsearch

qw
Quick weather forecast by zip code using Weather Underground.com a very infomation intensive weather website.
359 uses - Created 2005-06-24 22:25:12 - Last used 2025-08-06 13:51:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=%s

ytv
Search tv.yahoo.com for tv shows.
153 uses - Created 2005-06-24 21:35:24 - Last used 2025-05-30 17:08:45 - Nominate - Description - http://search.tv.yahoo.com/tvtitlesearch?p=%2b%s

install

546 uses - Created 2005-06-24 21:13:49 - Last used 2021-01-13 10:46:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.kuhnelectronics.com

plotip
Gets info on an IP address, including location.
118 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:52:52 - Last used 2012-10-01 15:47:38 - Nominate - Description - http://plotip.com/index.php?ip=%s&do_locate=LOCATE

gspot
Search GameSpot for, um, games. Example: gspot bard's tale
3271 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:48:39 - Last used 2013-11-17 13:05:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gamespot.com/pages/search/index.php?type=11&stype=all&qs=%s&x=0&y=0.

gPhoto
finds good licensable images
15 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:41:43 - Last used 2024-01-03 04:09:24 - Nominate - Description - http://stockphotofinder.com/search/index.php?makePage=1&search_str=%2&submit1=new+search&rf=rf&rm=rm&ed=ed

spf
finds good licensable images
80 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:39:21 - Last used 2025-04-04 11:34:14 - Nominate - Description - http://stockphotofinder.com/search/find_new.php?search_str=%s

aotb
This is Attack of the Show's blog.
12 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:30:21 - Last used 2005-08-27 19:32:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.attackoftheblog.com/

pbase
searches pbase.com
11 uses - Created 2005-06-24 20:03:17 - Last used 2015-12-07 01:34:38 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pbase.com

msns
MSN Search
104 uses - Created 2005-06-24 19:32:36 - Last used 2021-11-11 04:17:50 - Nominate - Description - http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%s

trip
Search of Tripadvisor.com
2091 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:54:06 - Last used 2026-03-05 16:55:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?q=%s

patent
Quick search of the US Patent DB
557 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:49:53 - Last used 2025-08-26 06:22:37 - Nominate - Description - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=%s&d=ptxt

set
Search Google Sets: Example: set -1 bush -2 regan -3 clinton will return more presidents
1638 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:41:18 - Last used 2025-01-08 02:51:06 - Nominate - Description - http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=${1}&q2=${2}&q3=${3}&btn=Large+Set

calc
calculate
1515 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:30:35 - Last used 2026-04-07 22:59:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%s

aafp
Searches the American Academy of Family Physcians site for journal articles in PDF format. (Much quicker than using their site search.)
25 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:17:25 - Last used 2024-08-11 15:27:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?biw=988&hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf+site%3Aaafp.org+%s

babylon
site for computer help in babylon, NY, USA
70 uses - Created 2005-06-24 18:15:47 - Last used 2022-09-08 22:07:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mikewaters.net

ysec
Yahoo Finance's list of SEC filings for that ticker symbol.
48 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:43:36 - Last used 2010-04-29 15:40:01 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=%s

army
AA Gaming Lader
28 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:41:32 - Last used 2018-10-11 19:15:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.aaladder.com

sfp
Jump to a sourceforge project if you know their subdomain. For example, 'sfp gaim' takes you to Gaim's homepage, 'sfp filezilla' takes you to Filezilla's, and so on.
200 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:38:05 - Last used 2015-02-15 08:27:06 - Nominate - Description - http://%s.sourceforge.net/

1look
OneLook.com Dictionary Search OneLook.com returns dictionary lookup results from numerous online dictionaries. Example: 1look example This command is probably highly extensible using the many features of OneLook, but I have yet to explore those.
11 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:26:26 - Last used 2009-02-23 05:40:49 - Nominate - Description - http://onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a

clock
Naval Observatory Master Clock
129 uses - Created 2005-06-24 17:23:04 - Last used 2024-11-08 17:37:05 - Nominate - Description - http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

mu
Search Mozilla Update Finds extensions and themes for Mozilla products, including Firefox and Thunderbird. Syntax: mu LiveLines
485 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:54:38 - Last used 2025-08-03 05:45:54 - Nominate - Description - https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksearch.php?q=%s

pydoc
Search the pydoc.org website for the relevant python command. Specify the version using -v. eg: pydoc -v 2.4.1 open
329 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:37:26 - Last used 2023-04-14 12:42:47 - Nominate - Description - http://pydoc.org/-{v}/search.cgi?key=%s

grel
finds related sites provide domain like google.com or oracle.com nice start to browse the web
16 uses - Created 2005-06-24 16:15:46 - Last used 2014-06-26 12:46:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=related%3A%s

coral (Golden Egg)
Enter a URL and this command will load it using the Coral Content Distributed Network (http://coralcdn.org/ ). Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. This will only work after the root domain (e.g. urls ending in .com, .edu, etc.) but not subdirectories. And don't include the trailing slash if any (e.g. "coral www.vischeck.com", not "coral www.vischeck.com/") Usage: coral [URL] Example: coral www.vischeck.com
555 uses - Created 2005-06-24 15:41:09 - Last used 2025-06-06 13:52:48 - Description - http://%s.nyud.net:8090

spinuzzi
Search Clay Spinuzzi's website, which primarily contains reviews of academic books. Example: spinuzzi dialogic imagination
18 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:58:30 - Last used 2007-08-22 10:11:53 - Nominate - Description - http://babbage2.cwrl.utexas.edu/~spinuzzi/spinuzzi_drupal/?q=search&keys=%s

passgen
Create a random yet somewhat pronounceable password Example: passgen Uses the Linuxbuilt password generator http://www.linuxbuilt.com
78 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:28:19 - Last used 2018-10-06 03:17:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linuxbuilt.com/password-generator.php

manpage
Displays the man page for a queried item from FreeBSD.org using their default settings. Adjustments to the scope and release version can be adjusted after the result is shown. Example: man cp
109 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:28:13 - Last used 2023-08-31 15:37:33 - Nominate - Description - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=%s

ymovie
To get yahoo review
17 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:24:46 - Last used 2008-08-29 17:56:03 - Nominate - Description - http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/search?p=%s

vienna

67 uses - Created 2005-06-24 14:00:03 - Last used 2025-03-14 13:28:33 - Nominate - Description - http://viennateng.com

request

356 uses - Created 2005-06-24 13:56:15 - Last used 2025-08-12 07:23:34 - Nominate - Description - http://demo.ifinch.com/Finch/SRM/requestDetails?REQ_ID=%s

rkw
search korean ruby user group wiki
18 uses - Created 2005-06-24 12:57:14 - Last used 2009-12-21 19:27:53 - Nominate - Description - http://wiki.rubykr.org/instiki/search?query=%s

ypau
Search Australian (au) Yellow Pages Usage: ypau business_type_goes_here
33 uses - Created 2005-06-24 12:24:48 - Last used 2017-08-09 18:52:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.yellowpages.com.au/search/postSearchEntry.do?businessType=%s&businessName=&locationClue=&serviceArea=true

river
Searches for whitewater rivers on AmericanWhitewater.org, in any state in the United States.
326 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:39:31 - Last used 2025-09-28 14:25:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.americanwhitewater.org/search/?rivername=%s&state=any&level=any&atleast=I&atmost=V%2B&sr=River+Search

qpostal (Golden Egg)
Canada Postal Code (Quick) Search. To find a postal code, type in an address in the following way. Example: qpostal -n 123 -s main -t street -c winnipeg -p MB Switches: -n the street number -s the street name -t the street type (this is optional; also "street" or "st" works) -c the town or city -p the province (AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT)
155 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:36:36 - Last used 2024-04-02 20:11:15 - Description - http://www.canadapost.ca/common/tools/pcl/bin/cp_search_response-e.asp?street_number=${n}&street_name=${s}&street_type=${t}&city=${c}&prov=${p}[post]

kdic
english to korea, korea to english dictionary
24 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:27:29 - Last used 2010-10-14 21:25:41 - Nominate - Description - http://engdic.empas.com/dicsearch/show.tsp/?z=C&q=%s

apoddate (Golden Egg)
Astronomy Picture of the Day find by date Enter the date to search for as yymmdd, as far back as 950616 (June 16th, 1995) Example: To see the picture for June 5th, 2005 enter apoddate 050605
138 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:27:24 - Last used 2023-03-29 05:00:14 - Description - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap%s.html

apod
Astronomy Picture of the Day
473 uses - Created 2005-06-24 11:15:03 - Last used 2026-02-07 10:16:45 - Nominate - Description - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

coru
Koders.com Search with ruby language. example: coru Array.new see also code kode
12 uses - Created 2005-06-24 10:50:45 - Last used 2010-01-12 20:27:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.koders.com/?s=%s&_%3Abtn=Search&_%3Ala=Ruby&_%3Ali=*

now
Gives the current time in any country Just type the 2 letter code of the country you're looking for. Example: now UK
586 uses - Created 2005-06-24 10:18:10 - Last used 2026-03-05 08:42:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_%s.aspx

posten
This will track a package in the norwegian postal system. ---------- Old implementation: http://nettgods.posten.no/Nettgods/Internett/nettspor_res.asp?sendingsnummer=%s
22 uses - Created 2005-06-24 09:58:04 - Last used 2020-06-08 04:43:29 - Nominate - Description - http://sporing.posten.no/sporing.html?q=%s

Europa
Search all sites with domain name 'eu.int'
202 uses - Created 2005-06-24 08:57:04 - Last used 2025-05-20 17:38:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%s&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=.eu.int&safe=images

yub
Shortcut to the YubNub front page.
1123 uses - Created 2005-06-24 07:13:23 - Last used 2025-09-24 05:28:06 - Nominate - Description - http://yubnub.org/

slut
LOL!
75 uses - Created 2005-06-24 06:50:19 - Last used 2024-03-20 19:46:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.livejournal.com/users/babyretardfetus/

arxiv
Search in the arXiv. The query for arXiv can be fairly complicated, but simple examples are: Search in Mathematics for the author "Grothendieck": arxiv -grp math -what au:grothendieck Search in Mathematics articles containing "combinatorics" in the title: arxiv -grp math -what ti:combinatorics
603 uses - Created 2005-06-24 06:41:58 - Last used 2026-04-10 11:52:35 - Nominate - Description - http://arxiv.org/find/grp_${grp}/1/${what}/0/1/0/all/0/1

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