The idea is that you can type something like ‘esv gal 5 1’ or ‘wiki cumberland valley’ and be taken to the appropriate page, bypassing several pages you’d normally have to navigate through, like search results.

I was having trouble today with the next-to-last one on that list: the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. But it looks like they fixed it while I was writing this post. Unless I clicked the actual “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on their front page, Google was just taking me to a search results page, even if I pasted in the google.com url I was redirected to for a split second.

I save a lot of time using these shortcuts. If you don’t use them already, why don’t you start now?

Twitter users near Greenville, Spartanburg, or Anderson, SC should subscribe to it.

And in case you want to subscribe some other way (RSS, email, etc.), or make your own customized version, you can visit the actual Yahoo! Pipe.

It seems to work quite nicely; we’re apparently having a Freeze Watch tonight. Who knew?