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Commentary: This module provides utility functions for searching the WWW
Automatically generated documentation for commands defined in module emacspeak-websearch.
Google Accessible Search – see http://labs.google.com/accessible
Search Computer Science Bibliographies.
Search Encyclopedia Britannica.
Perform an company news lookup. Retrieves company news, research, profile, insider trades, or upgrades/downgrades.
Search CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Site.
Search CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network Site.
Search the Webster Dictionary.
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Launches specific websearch queries. Press `?' to list available search engines. Once selected, the selected searcher prompts for additional information as appropriate. When using W3, this interface attempts to speak the most relevant information on the result page.
Display form specified by form-markup.
Perform EmapSpeak search. Query is a Google Maps query in plain English. Interactive prefix arg `use-near' searches near our previously cached location.
Perform search relative to `my-location'.
Currency convertor.
Perform a Froogle search. Optional interactive prefix arg local-flag prompts for local area in which to search.
Perform a Google search. Optional interactive prefix arg `lucky' is equivalent to hitting the I'm Feeling Lucky button on Google.
Present Google advanced search form simplified for speech interaction.
Do a I'm Feeling Lucky Google search.
Perform a Google query against a specific index.
Use this from inside the calendar to do Google date-range searches.
Perform a specialized Google search. See the Google site for what is possible here: http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html
Present Google Usenet advanced search form simplified for speech interaction.
Displays key mapping used by Emacspeak Websearch.
Get driving directions from Yahoo. With optional interactive prefix arg MAP shows the location map instead.
Search the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Perform an Yahoo News search. Optional prefix arg no-rss scrapes information from HTML.
Perform an Open Directory search
Perform a PodScope search to locate podcasts.
Perform a Quotes Yahoo . Default tickers to look up is taken from variable emacspeak-websearch-personal-portfolio. Default is to present the data in emacspeak's table browsing mode –optional interactive prefix arg causes data to be displayed y W3 as a WWW page. You can customize the defaults by setting variable emacspeak-websearch-quotes-yahoo-options to an appropriate string.
Present advanced search form for recorded books.
Search SourceForge, Freshmeat and other sites.
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Prompt and browse a Usenet newsgroup. Optional interactive prefix arg results in prompting for a search term.