HN Explorer

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cduan
This was a little midnight web programming project of mine. Maybe there's another service like it, but I haven't found it yet. If you have any suggestions for additional shortcuts, send them over!
apgwoz
Well, I'm impressed. It worked without fuss for my, hardly known photography blog (photub). I thought maybe there was just a list of aliases, but that can't be the case... are you just relying on a common url pattern of search/?q=<query> or are you actually a reader of my blog?
bayareaguy
I tried "search.sbf5.com anything" and it just took me to a domain squatter page.
cduan
Yes, that is where www.anything.com goes. Try, perhaps, "ebay anything"?
Tuna-Fish
http://yubnub.org/ ? I have it integrated to my address bar, works like a dream.
cduan
Interesting, didn't know about that, but it looks cool. It looks like it just uses a list of aliases though, while I default to treating the keyword as the domain name itself and extracting the form from the HTML of the page.
ojbyrne
you need to validate the input more. Not including a site gave me an ugly error message.