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:

Donations

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