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Principle

List of the keywords I use with Firefox and Vimperator to browse the web.

  • code : Code repository
    • http://fabien.benetou.fr/repository/?p=.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=%s
  • arxiv : arXiv.org Search
    • http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+%s/0/1/0/all/0/1
  • quora : search for a related question or topic on quora
    • http://www.quora.com/search?q=%s
  • qt : display a specified topic on Quora
    • http://www.quora.com/%s
  • ngram : Google Ngram Viewer
    • http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=%s
  • dbpedia : query to the SPARQL endpoint of DBpedia (structured information from Wikipedia)
    • http://dbpedia.org/sparql?query=%S
  • sep : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    • http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=%s
  • inmybooks : Google Books Own Library search, searches within my list of read books
    • http://books.google.com/books?uid=6723022777584282679&q=%s
    • based on inbook
    • see Google Books API to further automatize, in particular book addition
  • lyrics : Search LyricWiki
    • http://lyrics.wikia.com/Special:Search?search=%s&go=1&x=0&y=0
  • inbook : search within a book
  • meteo : Météo-France weather search by city name or area code
    • http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil/resultat?RECHERCHE_RESULTAT_PORTLET.path=rechercheresultat&query=%s&type=PREV_FRANCE&satellite=france
  • map : OpenStreetMap Nominatim Search
    • http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%s
  • etyen : myEtymology.com: English etymology
    • http://www.myetymology.com/english/%s.html
  • etyfr : myEtymology.com: French etymology
    • http://www.myetymology.com/english/%s.html
  • person : Person Search Results
    • http://self/wiki/Person/Person?action=search&q=group%3Dperson+%s
  • chat : search across discussion logs
  • gene : NCBI Genes DB
    • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=gene&term=%s
  • tws : twitter search
    • http://twitter.com/#search?q=%s
  • tw : twitter user
    • http://twitter.com/%s
  • film : megavideo real-time search from Collecta
    • http://www.collecta.com/#q=megavideo%20%s
  • pmwiki : PmWiki search
    • http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki?action=search&q=%s
  • man : UNIX man pages
    • http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?%s
  • brain : search across multiple personal wikis, discussion logs, repository, ...
    • misleading, to be renamed e.g. pim_search
    • using Sphinxsearch
    • http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=[+%s+site:fabien.benetou.fr+]
  • pubmed : search with PubMed
    • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=%s
  • rt : real-time search with Collecta
    • http://www.collecta.com/#q=%s
  • tongue : reverse dictionnary lookup (against the tip of the tongue effect)
    • http://www.onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=%s
  • tte : translate to English
    • http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=%s&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=
    • binded to E
  • news : my selected set of news by country code
    • http://newsmap.jp/#/b,m,n,t,w/%s/view/
    • works with country code like "fr" or "ca" (support multiple countries by separating them with "," for example "us,uk,fr,ca")
  • play : search YouTube playlists
    • http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=%s
  • td : twitter search on "down" and they keyword
    • http://search.twitter.com/search?q=down+%s
  • page2rss : Page2RSS
    • http://page2rss.com/page?url=%s
  • citizendium : Citizendium search
    • http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
  • sp : Scholarpedia search
    • http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special:Search?search=%s
  • geoip : GeoIP resolution from MaxMind
    • http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip?ips=%s
  • tef : Google Translate, English to French
    • http://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en&q=%s&sl=en&tl=fr
  • tfe : Google Translate, French to English
    • http://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en&q=%s&sl=fr&tl=en
  • ms : Google Gmail search
    • http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/%s
    • works with keywords like** word to:email@domain.tld
  • vid : Google Video
    • http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s
  • veoh : Veoh
    • http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/%s
  • abv : Abbreviations
    • http://www.abbreviations.com/%s
  • tv : Google TimeView
    • http://www.google.com/views?q=%s+view:timeline
  • ut : YouTube
    • http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%S
  • bt : IsoHunt
    • http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=%s
  • se : Seedea
    • http://wiki.seedea.org/Content/Search?action=search&q=%s
  • radio : TopRadio
    • http://en.topradio.org/search?q=%s
  • isbn : ISBN db
    • http://isbndb.com/search-all.html?kw=%s
  • imdb : IMDB (Title only)
    • http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=%s
  • doi : DOI resolver
    • http://dx.doi.org/%s
  • img : Google Images
    • http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
  • we : Wikipedia English
    • https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/%s
  • wf : Wikipedia French
    • https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/wiki/%s
  • wte : Wiktionary English
    • http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s
  • wtf : Wiktionary French
    • http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s
  • isgd : is.gd
    • http://is.gd/create.php?longurl=%s

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My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.