Ecphoneme

Ecphoneme is a browser add-on that allows you to search directly on specific website with the help of few extra characters directly from the address bar.

Why?

This add-on was inspired by DuckDuckGo !bangs commands.

Long long ago, I've switched from Google to DuckDuckGo for my search engine. The reason was I didn't like how much information Google kept for me based on my searches. After a while I found myself left out with not quite good search results, than the ones that I was used to. I loved the !bangs though. I kept using DuckDuckGo, but I kept looking for another search engine. Later I found out Startpage and tested it. It was Google without Google. My default search engine still was DuckDuckGo, but I used it only because of the !bang commands. All most all of my searches included !sp (Startpage).

Ecphoneme is an attempt to have the advantage of the !bang commands without using DuckDuckGo as a search engine. After all using an intermediary to search 3rd parties websites is kind of annoying even doing it transparently.

Ecphoneme? – !?

ˈɛkfəʊnˌiːm

Ecphoneme is an old fashion word (according to Wiktionary) that means exclamation mark, a bang.

Supported browsers

Currently only Mozilla Firefox (21 and above).

Support for older versions and other browsers is available on request if enough people want it.

License

GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (at your option) any later version.

Authors

Ivaylo Valkov <ivaylo@e-valkov.org>

Bugs

Yes it probably has. Report them.

Supported websites

Ecphoneme help page URL This page Keywords !help Ecphoneme home page URL http://e-valkov.org/ecphoneme Keywords !ecphoneme

!home

!homepage Startpage URL https://startpage.com/do/search?q= Keywords !sp

!s

!startpage Startpage Images URL https://startpage.com/do/search?cat=pics&cmd=process_search&query= Keywords !si

!spi

!img

!images Startpage Videos URL https://startpage.com/do/search?cat=video&cmd=process_search&query= Keywords !sv

!spv

!video

!vid DuckDuckGo URL https://duckduckgo.com/?q= Keywords !ddg

!d

!duckduckgo Wikipedia (EN) URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search= Keywords !w

!wiki

!wk

!wikipedia Wiktionary (EN) URL https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search= Keywords !wt

!wte

!wiktionary Google URL https://www.google.com/search?q= Keywords !g

!ggl

!google Google Images URL https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q= Keywords !gi

!ggli

!gimages

!googleimages Bing URL https://bing.com/?q= Keywords !b

!bing Bing Images URL https://www.bing.com/images/search?q= Keywords !bi

!bingimages Firefox addons URL https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q= Keywords !addons

!firefox MetaCPAN URL https://metacpan.org/search?q= Keywords !metacpan

!mcp

!mcpan CPAN URL http://search.cpan.org/search?query= Keywords !cpan Perl Monks URL http://perlmonks.org/?node= Keywords !pm

!perlmonks IMDB URL http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q= Keywords !imdb YaCy P2P Demo-Search URL http://search.yacy.net/yacysearch.html?query= Keywords !yc

!yacy YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query= Keywords !yt

!youtube Vimeo URL https://vimeo.com/search?q= Keywords !vm

!vimero

Downloads

The following are the available downloads for Ecphoneme: The installation binary is available on Mozilla's add-on pages.

Local copy of the installation binary. It is recommended to use the Mozilla addons page version. This is for backup purposes only.

This is for backup purposes only. The source code is available from Git at Gitorious

Donations

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