Alternatives
Projects similar to Trovu.
Yubnub
- It is also open source, under the MIT license.
- No custom (personal) shortcuts are possible.
- Multiple arguments require more typing (
-optionname argument). - English-centric: Dictionaries only from/to English. Trovu solves this with namespaces.
- Yubnub processes queries on the server (so you share all your searches with them). Trovu processes entirely in your browser.
DuckDuckGo
- It is a full web search engine,
- but it also offers so-called !bangs.
- Those bangs can only take 1 argument.
- To add or edit them, you have to contact their support team.