NewsForge: YubNub: A Command Line for the Web

“Tired of dragging your mouse from one Web site to another,
trying to get to the best of the Web? Give YubNub a run. Its name
means ‘hooray’ in Ewok, and it might just make you jump for joy.
Its developer, Jon Aquino, calls YubNub the URL command line of the
Web OS. It provides a portal to hundreds of searchable Web
sites.

“YubNub can get information by using any Web service. YubNub can
search Wikipedia, hunt down the closest pizza place using Google
Maps, help you find the latest posts on a particular subject using
Technorati, translate pages into English, generate tiny URLs, and
perform calculations…”

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