Surfraw - command line interface to web search engines

Very cool! Thanks for the link.

I downloaded and built 2.2.5 sources in Fedora 10. After installation and a bit of lazy fiddling, created the 'yc' elvi.

    cd ~/foo/lib/surfraw
    diff yubnub yc

    -------------------------<snip>------------------------
    2,3c2,3
    < # elvis: yubnub		-- Use the social command-line for the web (yubnub.org)
    < # initial implementation by Iain D Broadfoot, ripped from the freshmeat elvi
    ---
    > # elvis: yc		-- Search ycombinator (news.ycombinator.com)
    > # initial implementation by Shailesh S. Khandekar, by simply patching the yubnub script by Iain D Broadfoot
    10c10
    <     Run a yubnub command
    ---
    >     Run a yc command
    16,17c16,17
    < # disable requoting, yubnub commands often need protecting from
    < # the shell with quotes but without those quotes passed on to yubnub
    ---
    > # disable requoting, yc commands often need protecting from
    > # the shell with quotes but without those quotes passed on to yc
    22c22
    <     w3_browse_url "http://www.yubnub.org/"
    ---
    >     w3_browse_url "http://searchyc.com/"
    25c25
    <     w3_browse_url "http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=${escaped_args}"
    ---
    >     w3_browse_url "http://searchyc.com/${escaped_args}"
    ------------------------</snip>-------------------------------------------------

Edit: corrected formatting.