Doing Search (only Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia for now)

Doing Search requires more work under the hood, because more information is passed to the web site. In addition to the web address, a search string has to be passed and massaged. So we have only made search working for four web sites: google, yahoo, wikipedia. But please feel free to email us if you need search to work on another web site.

To do search, send one of the following commands to web@db4.us (see introduction section on how):

gsearch subject search_words
bsearch subject search_words
ysearch subject search_words
wsearch subject search_words

where search_words is either one single word, or multiple words connected with the "+" character, in single or double quotations.

For instance, the following are correct examples of search commands:

gsearch subject flu

bsearch subject swine+flu

ysearch subject "swine flu"

wsearch subject 'swine flu'

The above will result in a text message consisting of the search result from one of google, bing, yahoo, and wikipedia. For google and yahoo, the sponsor links will also be returned and you may have to scroll pass them to get to the useful information.

After the command, options like size 1600 (to limit the message size to 1600) and max 1 (to limit the number of messages returned to 1) can be specified.

gsearch subject flu max 1
gsearch subject flu size 1600