Originally published July 24 2005
Facility helps consumers access a service with customer-created short label
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
YubNub (http://www.yubnub.org/) is a Net service that lets you create your own commands for exploring an online service of your choice. This service, projected as a command line for the web, already has several tiny commands for accessing many web applications such as Gmail, Google and Yahoo.
The widespread adoption of the Net coupled with the availability of faster links presents a suitable atmosphere for entrepreneurs to float new/versatile on-line applications.
To remember a URL it is better to have a facility that helps you access a service with a customer-created short label.
Instead of accessing the service with such a lengthy URL, if you can access it by just typing the word `dd' on the input box, it will make life easy.
The on-line service, YubNub is an illustration of this idea.
This service, projected as a command line for the web, has already several tiny commands for accessing many web applications such as Gmail, Google and Yahoo.
For example, by entering the command `gnews' on YubNub input box, you can access the Google news.
Apart from being able to post your own commands, an additional feature of YubNub is that it allows you to share your commands with other netizens.
For more details on plug-ins check out: http://www.yubnub.org/documentation/describe_installation.
That is, if you enter a command on YubNub, which is not available on its database, the service will invoke a Google search on this string automatically.
The search service Ambedo (http://www.ambedo.com/) that enables you to invoke a search on any search engine you choose from its interface is yet another search facilitator worth a mention.
With Ambedo, you can invoke a specific search service by adding a search-engine specific tag before the string to be searched.
Another notable feature of this service is that it identifies patterns such as IP addresses, domain names and the like from the search string being entered and automatically offers the option to access special search services (like Whois).
The software allows you to write scripts for assigning keystrokes for automating a set of tasks.
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