yubnub - firefox extension of the day Source

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2title: 'yubnub - firefox extension of the day'
3date: '2008-01-03'
4published_at: '2008-01-03T13:42:00.000+11:00'
5tags: ['productivity', 'programming', 'search', 'web']
6author: 'Gavin Jackson'
7excerpt: 'I''ve been a big fan of firefox quick searches for quite some time - this allows you to type in things like wp in your browser url bar and it will perform a wikipedia search for you. There''s lots of th...'
8updated_at: '2008-01-03T18:04:14.342+11:00'
9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2008/01/yubnub-firefox-extension-of-day.html'
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12I've been a big fan of firefox quick searches for quite some time - this allows you to type in things like wp in your browser url bar and it will perform a wikipedia search for you.
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14There's lots of them - I downloaded a heap a while ago into my browser that allowed me to search various language API documentation, cpan, mysql doco, google, wikipedia, IMDB etc.).
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16However it's a bit of a pain, deploying these bookmarks to all of the machines that I use - and I'm pretty sure delicious bookmarks does not support quick searches, and I was struggling to find the original list of bookmarks out on the interweb.
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18[http://yubnub.org/](http://yubnub.org/)
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20Enter yubnub, it's a "social search bookmarking-like" thing - simply install the search engine into your firefox browser and start using the yubnub "community" quick searches.
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22Some of the interesting quick searches it provides include:
23g - google search gn - google news search wp - wikipedia search flk - flickr search gim - google image search deli - delicious tag search cpan - search cpan jd - search javadoc.org mysql - search mysql documentation
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25A list of core yubnub commands is here:
26[http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#CoreCommands ](http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#CoreCommands) It's actually a lot more complex than that, but I'll let you guys explore it a bit more - let me know what you think!
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---
title: 'yubnub - firefox extension of the day'
date: '2008-01-03'
published_at: '2008-01-03T13:42:00.000+11:00'
tags: ['productivity', 'programming', 'search', 'web']
author: 'Gavin Jackson'
excerpt: 'I''ve been a big fan of firefox quick searches for quite some time - this allows you to type in things like wp in your browser url bar and it will perform a wikipedia search for you. There''s lots of th...'
updated_at: '2008-01-03T18:04:14.342+11:00'
legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2008/01/yubnub-firefox-extension-of-day.html'
---

I've been a big fan of firefox quick searches for quite some time - this allows you to type in things like wp in your browser url bar and it will perform a wikipedia search for you.

There's lots of them - I downloaded a heap a while ago into my browser that allowed me to search various language API documentation, cpan, mysql doco, google, wikipedia, IMDB etc.).

However it's a bit of a pain, deploying these bookmarks to all of the machines that I use - and I'm pretty sure delicious bookmarks does not support quick searches, and I was struggling to find the original list of bookmarks out on the interweb.

[http://yubnub.org/](http://yubnub.org/)

Enter yubnub, it's a "social search bookmarking-like" thing - simply install the search engine into your firefox browser and start using the yubnub "community" quick searches.

Some of the interesting quick searches it provides include:
g - google search gn - google news search wp - wikipedia search flk - flickr search gim - google image search deli - delicious tag search cpan - search cpan jd - search javadoc.org mysql - search mysql documentation

A list of core yubnub commands is here:
[http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#CoreCommands ](http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#CoreCommands) It's actually a lot more complex than that, but I'll let you guys explore it a bit more - let me know what you think!